Dr Swagato Sanyal

School of Computer Science

Lecturer in Algorithms

Swagato.Sanyal@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Swagato Sanyal
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

I received my PhD in Computer Science from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India in 2017. From 2017 to 2018 I was a research fellow with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore. I served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) from June 2018 to February 2025. Since February 2025 I have been a lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.

Research interests

I am interested in theoretical computer science in general and computational complexity theory in particular. More specifically, I work in Boolean function analysis, query and communication complexity.

Research group

Foundations of Computation at Sheffield (FOX)