# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/umesh-vazirani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:01:03.035Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/umesh-vazirani"
name: "Umesh Vazirani"
slug: "umesh-vazirani"
description: "Umesh Virkumar Vazirani is an Indian–American academic who is the Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the Berkeley Quantum Computation Center. His research interests lie primarily in quantum computing. He is also a co-author of a textbook on algorithms."
tagline: "Indian theoretical computer scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.467428
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اومش وزیرانی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Umesh Vazirani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ഉമേഷ് വസിറാണി"
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    title: "Вазирани, Умеш"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump