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Diptaksho Palit

Ph.D. Student @ Boston University

About

I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science, Boston University, in the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) research group, where I am advised by Prof. Sofya Raskhodnikova. I completed my undergraduate degree in mathematics and computer science at Chennai Mathematical Institute.

My research focuses on computational complexity and property testing. In property testing, I like to work on query and time complexity lower bounds, though our insights sometimes lead to new upper bounds instead. I am interested in investigating gaps between the information-theoretic (query complexity) and computational (time complexity) bounds on learning and testing problems. In complexity theory, I'm working on formalising relativisation to better understand it as a proof barrier and proof technique.

Properties tested
  • halfspaces
  • unate functions
  • k-submodular functions
  • lipschitz functions
  • parenthesis languages
  • connected graphs
  • k-edge-connected graphs

Publications

2026

Teaching

Spring 2026
Teaching Fellow

CS537: Randomness in Computing

Boston University · Sofya Raskhodnikova
Spring 2024
Teaching Fellow

CS332: Theory of Computation

Boston University · Mark Bun
Spring 2023
Teaching Assistant

CU2101: Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Chennai Mathematical Institute · Nithin Varma, Geevarghese Philip
Spring 2023
Teaching Assistant

CU1201: Advanced Programming

Chennai Mathematical Institute · Samir Datta
Fall 2022
Teaching Assistant

HU1101: English

Chennai Mathematical Institute · Usha Mahadevan
Spring 2022
Teaching Assistant

CU1201: Advanced Programming

Chennai Mathematical Institute · Samir Datta
Spring 2022
Teaching Assistant

MU1203: Discrete Mathematics

Chennai Mathematical Institute · Partha Mukhopadhyay, C. Ramya
Fall 2021
Teaching Assistant

CU1101: Introduction to Programming (Haskell)

Chennai Mathematical Institute · S P Suresh

Service

External Reviewer
RANDOM 2026 STOC 2026 CIAC 2025 STOC 2025 RANDOM 2023