Roy is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa. Before transitioning to academia, he worked as a data scientist in the industry. He had earned his PhD in computer science from UC Riverside in 2022.

Research interests

His primary research interest lies in theoretical computer science, specifically in exploring pseudorandomness and its connections and applications to areas such as coding theory, cryptography, etc. Additionally, in the past he has worked on several applied projects in computer vision and machine learning.

Research interests (keywords)

Algorithmic Foundations

Selected publications

• Gilbert and Varshamov Meet Johnson: List-Decoding Explicit Nearly-Optimal Binary Codes Silas Richelson, Sourya Roy. FOCS 2023