# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ravindran-kannan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:36:18.588Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ravindran-kannan"
name: "Ravindran Kannan"
slug: "ravindran-kannan"
description: "Ravindran (Ravi) Kannan ; born 12 March 1953, is a theoretical computer scientist. His work has mainly focused on efficient algorithms for problems of a mathematical flavor that arise in Computer Science, Machine Learning and Optimization."
tagline: "Indian mathematician"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1953-03-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump