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The theory group is engaged in cutting-edge research in a broad span of areas, including approximation and online algorithms, graph algorithms, combinatorics, complexity theory, geometric computing, game theory and mechanism design, machine learning, stochastic optimization and decision theory. The group is also engaged in collaborative efforts with researchers in a broad array of application areas and makes leading contributions to nanotechnology systems, computational molecular biology, database management and data analysis, computational economics, internet systems and services, high-performance computing, geographic information systems (GIS), and ecological modeling.
Faculty
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Xiaobai Sun |
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Affiliated Faculty
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Graduate Students
Current PhD Students
- Ruoxu Cen
- Muthu Chidambaram
- Anish Hebbar
- Ben Holmgren
- Ruoming Huang
- Rajiv Nagipogu
- Rahul Raychaudhury
- Govind S. Sankar
- Yiheng Shen
- Lu Wang
- Keegan Yao
- Mo Zhou
Recent Alumni
Postdocs
- Holden Lee, 2022 (Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins)
- Xiao Hu, 2022 (Assistant Professor at UWaterloo)
- Anilesh Krishnaswamy, 2021 (Google)
- Hsien-Chih Chang, 2020 (Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College)
- Yu Cheng, 2019 (Assistant Professor at Brown University)
- Emily Kyle Fox, 2017 (Associate Professor at UT Dallas)
- Sungjin Im, 2013 (Associate Professor at UC Merced)
- Thomas Moelhave, 2013 (Scalable Algorithmics)
- Swaminathan Sankaraman, 2013 (Akamai Technologies)
PhDs
- Chenwei Wu, 2023 (Huawei)
- Erin Taylor, 2023 (Geometric Data Analytics)
- Alexander Steiger, 2023 (Assistant Research Professor at Duke University)
- Keerti Anand, 2022 (Goldman Sachs)
- Abraham Frandsen, 2022 (Enveda Biosciences)
- Kevin Sun, 2022 (Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill)
- Kangning Wang, 2022 (Postdoc at Stanford)
- Xiang Wang, 2022 (Research Scientist at Meta)
- Aaron Lowe, 2021 (Esri)
- Reza Alijani, 2020 (Google)
- Yuan Deng, 2020 (Google Research)
- Stavros Sintos, 2020 (Assistant Professor at UIC)
- Allen Xiao, 2020 (Robinhood)
- Brandon Fain, 2019 (Assistant Research Professor at Duke University)
- Samuel Haney, 2019 (Tumult Labs)
- Nathaniel Kell, 2018 (Assistant Professor at Denison University)
- Seyed Zahedi, 2018 (Assistant Professor at UWaterloo)
- Abhinandan Nath, 2018 (Mentor Graphics)
- Tianqi Song, 2018 (Postdoc at Caltech)
- Hieu Bui, 2017 (Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America)
- Sudhanshu Garg, 2016 (LinkedIn)
- Jiangwei Pan, 2016 (Netflix)
- Janardhan Kulkarni, 2015 (Principal Researcher at Microsoft)
- Salman Parsa, 2015 (Assistant Professor at DePaul University)
- You Wu, 2015 (Google Research)
- Xiaoming Xu, 2015 (Google)
- Wuzhou Zhang, 2015 (Apple)
- Albert Yu, 2013 (Amazon)
- Sharath Raghvendra, 2012 (Associate Professor at Virginia Tech)
- Sayan Bhattacharya, 2012 (Associate Professor at University of Warwick)
- Harish Chandran, 2012 (Google)
- Nikhil Gopalkrishnan, 2012 (3EO Health)
- Shashidhara K. Ganjugunte, 2011 (Mentor Graphics)
Undergraduates
- Ivan-Aleksandar Mavrov, 2023 (PhD student at Stanford)
- Zeyu Shen, 2023 (PhD student at Cornell)
- William He, 2022 (PhD student at CMU)
- Xingyu (Jupiter) Zhu, 2022 (PhD student at Princeton)
- Charles Lyu, 2020 (PhD student at MIT)
- Xingyu Chen, 2019 (Facebook)
- Haofeng (Fred) Zhang, 2018 (PhD at Harvard -> PhD student at UC Berkeley)
- Arun Ganesh, 2017 (PhD at UC Berkeley -> Google Research)
- Rex Ying, 2016 (PhD at Stanford -> Assistant Professor at Yale)
- William Victor, 2016 (Applied Predictive Technologies)
- Niel Lebeck, 2014 (PhD at UW Seattle -> Google)
- Ben Berg, 2013 (PhD student at CMU -> Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill)
- Siyang Chen, 2012 (Google)
- Alex Beutel, 2011 (Google)
- Peng Shi, 2010 (PhD student at MIT -> Assistant Professor at USC Marshall School of Business)