Meena Mahajan is a professor in the theoretical computer science group at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, which she joined in 1994. She obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees from the department of computer science and engineering at IIT Bombay in 1986 and 1988 and her Ph.D. degree from IIT Madras in 1993. Her research focuses primarily on understanding the limits of efficient computation and encompasses many aspects of computational complexity theory, including Boolean function complexity, algebraic circuits, and proof complexity. She was elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2022.