Subhash Khot

Georgia Tech assistant professor Subhash Khot was selected as one of the first five recipients of the Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship Award, a new program that honors early-career university professors who demonstrate exceptional talent for novel research and thought leadership in their disciplines.

Khot was selected from among 110 nominees from universities across the United States. He and the other recipients will each receive a $200,000 grant to pursue their innovative research work in computer science. The winners also are given the opportunity to work with researchers at Microsoft Research.

Khot’s research at Tech’s College of Computing tackles fundamental questions regarding which problems can and cannot be solved quickly on a computer. The questions Khot addresses in his work often have deep connections to diverse areas in mathematics, logic, cryptography and computer science.

The other recipients hail from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkley; Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Microsoft Research established the New Faculty Fellowship Awards program to identify and support exceptional first-, second- and third-year professors who are advancing state-of-the-art computer science research.

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