Sushant Sachdeva won the Infosys Prize 2025 in Engineering and Computer Science. What is he best known for?
- Building battery-free computing systems and smartphone health tools
- Developing quantum computing hardware for low-power applications
- Designing near-linear-time algorithms for network flow and optimisation
- Creating AI models for affordable medical diagnostics in low-income settings
Answer: Designing "absurdly fast" algorithms — near-linear time solutions for network flow and linear programming problems
Sushant Sachdeva of the University of Toronto received the Infosys Prize 2025 in Engineering and Computer Science for his advances in mathematical optimisation, particularly developing near-linear-time algorithms for flow networks and linear programs. His results have been described as producing "absurdly fast" algorithms because they approach what theorists consider the theoretical limit of speed for these problems.