Nikhil Bansal is a research at CWI, and a professor in the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology. 
He did his Bachelors in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai (1999) and obtained his PhD from Carnegie
Mellon University in 2003. He worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center until 2011, 
where he also managed the Algorithms group. 

He is interested in theoretical computer science with
focus on the design and analysis of algorithms.
He has received several best paper awards for his work and is the recipient of the NWO Vidi, 
TOP and VICI grants, and an ERC consolidator grant.