Chandra Kanta Mohapatra received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2023, under the guidance of Prof. Nutan Limaye and Prof. Mrinal Kumar. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Chennai Mathematical Institute, hosted by Prof. Amit Sinhababu (Sep. 2023– July 2025). Since August 2025, he is currently a HIIT Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University, in the group of Prof. Petteri Kaski.
His research interests lie in Theoretical Computer Science, particularly in Symbolic Computation, Algebraic Complexity, and Polynomial and Matrix Computation.”
Publications:
(1) Journal of the ACM, Volume 70, Issue 6 Fast, Algebraic Multivariate Multipoint Evaluation in Small Characteristic and Applications. Vishwas Bhargava, Sumanta Ghosh, Mrinal Kumar and Chandra Kanta Mohapatra.
(2)Volume 32, article number 3,Computational complexity (2023) Schur Polynomials do not have small formulas if the Determinant doesn't. Prasad Chaugule, Mrinal Kumar, Nutan Limaye, Chandra Kanta Mohapatra, Adrian She and Srikanth Srinivasan.