Prahladh Harsha's Professional Activities

Editorial Work

  1. Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Computation Theory (ToCT) (2023 - present)
  2. Member of Editorial Board, Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC) (2021 -- present)
  3. Member of Editorial Board, Indian Journal of Discrete Mathematics (2019 - present)
  4. Member of Editorial Board, Algorithmica (2018 - 2023)
  5. Member of Editorial Board, SIAM Journal on Computing (SICOMP) (2017 - 2022)
  6. Guest Editor for the CCC 2016 Special Issue in Theory of Computing (ToC).
  7. Editor for Proc. 35th FSTTCS 2015, vol 45 of LIPIcs, Schloss Dagstuhl.

Chair of Program Committee

Member of Program Committee

Programs/Tutorials/Workshops Organized

  1. Organizer (with Irit Dinur, Avishay Tal, Salil Vadhan and David Zuckerman) of the semester program on Pseudorandomness and high-dimensional Expansion (24 August -- 18 December) at the Simons Institute at Berkeley, 2026.
  2. Organizer (with Parikshit Gopalan, Venkatesan Guruswami, Rahul Jain and K V Subrahmanyam) of the ICTS Workshop on Combinatorics, complexity and information: It is entropy that counts (8--9 May) at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) at Bengaluru, 2019, 2025.
  3. Organizer (with Irit Dinur and Venkatesan Guruswami) of the ICTS Workshop of HDX and Codes (28 April--9 May) at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) at Bengaluru, 2024.
  4. Convenor (with Shibashis Guha and Ramprasad Saptharishi) of the STCS Vigyan Vidushi 2022 programme (2--15 July), TIFR, 2022.
  5. Organizer (with Ramprasad Saptharishi and Srikanth Srinivasan) of the ITCS Workshop on Algebraic Complexity (WACT) (25--29 March) at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) at Bengaluru, 2019.
  6. Organizer (with Irit Dinur) of the summer cluster on Error-Correcting Codes and High Dimensional Expanders (11 July -- 9 August) at the Simons Institute at Berkeley, 2019.
  7. Organizer (with Vinod Prabhakaran and Jaikumar Radhakrishnan) for the workshop Bombay Information Theory Seminar (BITS), in commemoration of the birth centenary of Claude E. Shannon, IIT Bombay/TIFR, Jan 2016.
  8. Organizer (with Arkadev Chattopadhyay and Jaikumar Radhakrishnan) for the workshop on Recent Progress in Arithmetic Complexity, TIFR, Feb 2014.
  9. Organizer (with Amit Deshpande and Saket Saurabh) for the 4th Annual Mysore Park Workshop in Theoretical Computer Science: Algorithms and Complexity, August 2013.
  10. Organizer (with Amit Deshpande and Saket Saurabh) for the 3rd Annual Mysore Park Workshop in Theoretical Computer Science: Algorithms and Complexity, August 2012.
  11. Organizer (with Amit Deshpande and Saket Saurabh) for the 2nd Annual Mysore Park Workshop in Theoretical Computer Science: Algorithms and Complexity, May 2011.
  12. Organizer (with Moses Charikar) for the DIMACS Tutorial, Limits of Approximation Algorithms: PCPs and Unique games, June 2009.