Prof. Manindra Agrawal is a renowned academic in the field of Computer Science and Engineering, holding both B.Tech and Ph.D. degrees from IIT Kanpur. He has served as a fellow at SPIC Science Foundation and as a Humboldt Fellow in Germany. Joining IIT Kanpur's faculty in 1996, he became the N. Rama Rao Chair Professor in 2003. Prof. Agrawal has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Fulkerson Prize, Gödel Prize, and Infosys Prize for Mathematics. His contributions to mathematical sciences were recognized with the Padma Shri in 2013.