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	Rakesh Venkat Contact address : Room A-238, STCS, T.I.F.R. Navy Nagar, Colaba Mumbai-400005.
	Contact : rakesh AT tcs DOT tifr DOT res DOT in

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Hi! I am Rakesh Venkat, ~~First-year~~ ~~Second year~~ Third Year Research Scholar in the School of Technology and Computer Science, at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (T.I.F.R), Mumbai.

Academics

My current research interests lie in complexity theory and quantum computation. Previously, I was a student at I.I.T. Bombay in the Department of Computer Science (from 2003-2008). I graduated with a B.Tech, M.Tech (as part of the dual degree program).

Master's Thesis

Here's a copy of my Master's thesis, titled "Searching and Ranking in Entity Relation Graphs", completed under the guidance of Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti.

Survey Report on Parallel Repetition

Here's a copy of a survey on the Parallel Repetition Theorem and related results in complexity theory. There might be typos, feel free to email me with corrections and suggestions.
Slides of the talk based on this, given as part of the project seminar.