Eshan Chattopadhyay is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016, under the supervision of David Zuckerman.
His research focuses on pseudorandomness and its interconnections and applications to other areas of theoretical computer science. For his doctoral thesis, titled “Explicit Two-Source Extractors and More,” he worked on constructing extractors, which are algorithms that convert weak sources of randomness into truly random bits.