Sanjeev Arora (born January 1968) is an Indian-American theoretical computer scientist who works in AI and Machine learning.

Sanjeev scored the IIT JEE number 1 rank in 1986 He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2002–03.

Arora has been awarded the Fulkerson Prize for 2012 for his work on improving the approximation ratio for graph separators and related problems from

[7] He is a coauthor (with Boaz Barak) of the book Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach.

[8] He and his coauthors have argued that certain financial products are associated with computational asymmetry, which under certain conditions may lead to market instability.