Who is Indian-origin Eshan Chattopadhyay who won the prestigious Godel Prize in Maths? Why is the award so important?

Eshan Chattopadhyay, an Indian-origin computer scientist at Cornell University, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Godel Prize for his groundbreaking solution to a decades-old problem in randomness extraction. His work, which builds upon the mentorship of David Zuckerman, has significant implications for cryptography, secure communications, and data compression.