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Manindra Agrawal was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2026 for his outstanding contributions to theoretical computer science. He is widely known for co-developing the AKS primality test, a landmark achievement in mathematics and computer science. The algorithm provided the first deterministic polynomial-time method for testing whether a number is prime, with important applications in cryptography and internet security. Agrawal has received several prestigious awards for his research and was serving as the Director of IIT Kanpur when he received this honour.