Subhash Khot (born June 10) is an Indian born mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who is a Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He has made unexpected and original contributions to the field of computational complexity. He is best known for his unique games conjecture.He won Alan T. Waterman Award in 2010 for many unexpected and original contributions to computational complexity and his work draws connections between optimization, computer science, mathematics.