Meena Mahajan

Meena Mahajan is a professor at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) in Chennai. Prof. Mahajan's research interests encompass many aspects of computational complexity theory, including Boolean function complexity, algebraic circuits, proof complexity, and space bounded computation. Prof. Mahajan completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the department of computer science and engineering at IIT-Bombay and went on to receive her Ph.D. from IIT-Madras.

Prof. Mahajan has held several professional roles including member (and past chair) of the Steering Committee of the Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS), the executive council of the Indian Association for Research in Computer Science IARCS, the editorial board of the ACM Books series, the editorial board of the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), the advisory board of the journal TheoretiCS, and the board of trustees of the Computational Complexity Foundation. Since 2019, Prof. Mahajan has been an ACM India Eminent Speaker. She is an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2022) and serves on the ICM Structure Committee for ICM 2026.