Nutan Limaye
Professor
IT university of Copenhagen, Denmark
4B 404, Rued Langgaards Vej 7
2300 København S
Danmark
About
I am a faculty member at IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and I have been here since September 2021. Before this, I had the pleasure of serving as a faculty member in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India from August 2010 to August 2021. In addition, I had a brief but fulfilling postdoctoral stint at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research from August 2009 to July 2010. I completed my Ph.D. at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India in 2009, where I was advised by Meena Mahajan.
News
- On the PC of ITCS 2027, STOC 2027, CCC 2027.
- Organising Logical Foundations of Complexity Theory at the
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge.
- Organised WAVE 2026.
- Received Carlsberg Foundation's Semper Ardens: Accomplish grant.
The project funded by this grant is Algebraic Hardness and Applications (AHA).
Research
I am interested in several topics in theoretical computer science. My research mainly focuses on Complexity Theory. In the recent years, I have been spending most of my time thinking about problems in algebraic complexity theory. Read here about the my new project AHA.
Publications
Here is a link to a list of my publications.
Awards and honours
- Invited speaker at the CCC 2024, HALG 2026, ICALP 2026.
- Received ACM India Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman Award 2023.
- Featured in Vigyan Vidushi, a Resource Book on Profiles of Indian Women Scientists, put together by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
- Department Award for Excellence in Teaching, Computer Science Department, IIT Bombay, India. (Based on 5-year performance 2016 -– 2021).
- FOCS 2021 Best paper award for Superpolynomial Lower Bound for Low-depth Algebraic Cir- cuits, co-authored with Srikanth Srinivasan and Sébastien Tavenas.
- IIT Bombay Research Publication Award, 2019.
Funding
My research is funded by the following grants.
- Carlsberg Foundation's Semper Ardens: Accomplish grant [Sept 2026 -- Aug 2031]
- Independent Research Fund Denmark (Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond) [Jan 2024 -- Dec 2026]
- Villum Fonden's BARC II (Member of the core team) [Jul 2024 -- Jun 2029]
- Innovation Fund Denmark (co-PI) [Jan 2023 -- Dec 2025]
Students and Post-docs
- Manon Blanc (post-doc) [July 2025 -- to date]
- Prateek Dwivedi (post-doc) [August 2024 -- August 2026]
- Suryajith Chillara (post-doc) [Sept 2017 -- Sept 2019]
- Christain Engels (post-doc) [Aug 2017 -- Aug 2019]
- Nikhil Balaji (post-doc) [Oct 2015 -- Jan 2017]
- Magnus Hansen (Ph.D. student) [Started in Sept 2024]
- Vaibhav Krishan (Ph.D. student (co-advised with Sundar Vishwanathan)) [Defended in May 2024]
- Chandra Kanta Mohapatra (Ph.D. student (co-advised with Mrinal Kumar)) [Defended in Aug 2023]
- Prasad Chaugule (Ph.D. student) [Defended in May 2023]
- Pooja Vyavahare (Ph.D. student (co-advised with D. Manjunath)) [Defended in Dec 2016]
Short bio
- Dr. Nutan Limaye is a Full Professor in the Theoretical Computer Science section at IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Before this, she was an Associate Professor at IT University of Copenhagen from 2021 to 2025. Prior to that, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, India. She finished her Ph.D. at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) Chennai, India in 2009. She did a one-year postdoc stint at TIFR Mumbai, before joining IIT Bombay in 2010.
Her research interests are in theoretical Computer Science. Specifically, she is interested in Algorithms and Complexity Theory. Her recent research has focussed on Algebraic Complexity Theory and Lower Bounds.
Contact
Email: nuli [at] itu [dot] dk, nutanlimaye [at] gmail [dot] com