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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.


The theory group is engaged in cutting-edge research in a broad span of areas, including geometric computing, approximation and online algorithms, graph algorithms, game theory and mechanism design, stochastic optimization and decision theory, and combinatorial optimization. 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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[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/pankaj Pankaj Agarwal]


'''In the news:''' We are 10th on a recent ranking of theory groups across the U.S.: click [http://projects.csail.mit.edu/dnd/ranking/ here] for more.
<small>[https://users.cs.duke.edu/~pankaj/ Personal Website]</small><br><br>'''Research Interests''': Computational & discrete geometry, Shape analysis, GIS and ecologic modeling, Spatial databases, Sensor networks, Trajectory data analysis
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==Faculty==
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[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/99 Robert Calderbank] <br><br>'''Research Interests''': Error correcting codes, Combinatorics, Electrical Engineering


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[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/brandon.fain Brandon Fain]


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<small>[https://sites.duke.edu/btfain/ Personal Website]</small><br><br>'''Research Interests''': Fair resource allocation, Algorithmic game theory, Computational social choice
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[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/1 Pankaj Agarwal]<br> <br>
'''Primary Area''': Theoretical Computer Science <br>  
'''Research Interests''': Computational & discrete geometry, Shape analysis, GIS and ecologic modeling, Spatial databases, Sensor networks, Trajectory data analysis


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[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/99 Robert Calderbank] <br>  <br>
[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/rongge Rong Ge]
'''Primary Area''': Theoretical Computer Science <br>
'''Research Interests''': Error correcting codes, Combinatorics, Electrical Engineering


<small>[https://users.cs.duke.edu/~rongge/ Personal Website]</small><br><br>'''Research Interests''': Algorithms, machine learning, matrix/tensor decompositions, optimization.


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[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/325 Brandon Fain]<br> <br>
[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/siqi.liu Siqi Liu]
'''Primary Area''': Theoretical Computer Science <br>  
 
'''Research Interests''': Fair resource allocation, Algorithmic game theory, Computational social choice.
<small>[http://siqi-l.github.io Personal Website]</small><br><br>'''Research Interests''': High-dimensional expanders, Error correcting codes, Pseudorandomness, Geometry in groups


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[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/kamesh Kamesh Munagala]


<small>[https://www.kameshmunagala.org/ Personal Website]</small> <br><br>'''Research Interests''': Approximation and Online algorithms, Stochastic optimization, Decision theory, Scheduling theory, Computational Economics and Algorithmic mechanism design


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[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/263 Rong Ge]<br>  <br>
'''Primary Area''': Theoretical Computer Science <br>
'''Research Interests''': Algorithms, machine learning, matrix/tensor decompositions, optimization.
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[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/231 Debmalya Panigrahi] <br> <br>
[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/debmalya.panigrahi Debmalya Panigrahi]
'''Primary Area''': Theoretical Computer Science <br>
'''Research Interests''': Graph algorithms, Online and approximation algorithms, Combinatorial optimization, Applied algorithms


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<small>[https://www.debmalyapanigrahi.org/ Personal Website]</small> <br><br>'''Research Interests''': Graph algorithms, Online and approximation algorithms, Combinatorial optimization, Applied algorithms
 
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[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/22 John H. Reif] <br> <br>
[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/reif John H. Reif]
'''Primary Area''': Theoretical Computer Science <br>
'''Research Interests''': Biomolecular Computing and Self Assembly of DNA Nanostructures, Algorithms, Quantum computing, Optical computing


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<small>[https://users.cs.duke.edu/~reif/ Personal Website] </small><br><br>'''Research Interests''': Biomolecular Computing and Self Assembly of DNA Nanostructures, Algorithms, Quantum computing, Optical computing
 
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[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/334 Benjamin Rossman] <br> <br>
[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/Benjamin.Rossman Benjamin Rossman]
'''Primary Area''': Theoretical Computer Science <br>
 
'''Research Interests''': Complexity Theory, Circuit Complexity, Finite Model Theory, Combinatorics
<small>[https://users.cs.duke.edu/~br148/ Personal Website]</small><br><br>'''Research Interests''': Computational complexity theory, Circuit complexity, Finite model theory, Combinatorics
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|[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/78 Kamesh Munagala] <br> <br>
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'''Primary Area''': Theoretical Computer Science <br>
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'''Research Interests''': Approximation and Online algorithms,
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Stochastic optimization, Decision theory, Scheduling theory,
[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/alexander.steiger Alex Steiger] <br>
Computational economics and Algorithmic mechanism design,
Data-driven modeling and analysis of social networks,
Big-data processing and Query optimization


<small>[https://users.cs.duke.edu/~asteiger/ Personal Website]</small> <br><br>'''Research Interests''': Computational Geometry, Graph Algorithms
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[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/xiaobai.sun Xiaobai Sun] <br><br>'''Research Interests''': Numerical Analysis, Matrix Theory, High-performance Scientific Computing and Parallel Computing
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[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/fan.wei Fan Wei] <br>
<small>[https://sites.google.com/view/fan-wei/home Personal Website]</small> <br><br>'''Research Interests''': Extremal combinatorics, probabilistic combinatorics, applications of combinatorics to computer science
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[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/anru.zhang Anru Zhang]


<small>[https://anruzhang.github.io/ Personal Website]</small> <br><br>'''Research Interests''': Tensor Learning, High-dimensional Statistical Inference, Statistical Learning Theory, Generative Models, Electronic Health Records, Microbiome Studies
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== Affiliated Faculty ==
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[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/87 Bruce Donald] <br> <br>
[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/bruce.donald Bruce Donald] <br>
'''Primary Area''': Artificial Intelligence <br>
 
'''Research Interests''': Algorithms for structural molecular biology, Computational biology, Computational chemistry, Computational biophysics, Modeling of proteins and protein complexes, Optimization and search, Provably-good approximation algorithms, Computational geometry, Game theory for modeling pathogen resistance, Statistical mechanics, Computational topology, Geometric modeling and geometric computing
<small>[https://users.cs.duke.edu/~brd/ Personal Website] </small><br><br>'''Primary Area''': Artificial Intelligence <br>'''Research Interests''': Computational biology, chemistry and biophysics, Protein modeling, Optimization, Game theory for pathogen resistance, Statistical mechanics, and Geometric computing


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[https://math.duke.edu/people/john-harer John Harer] <br> <br>
[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/jianfeng Jianfeng Lu] <br>
'''Primary Area''': Mathematics <br>
'''Research Interests''': Computational topology, Computational biology, Algorithms


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<small>[https://sites.math.duke.edu/~jianfeng/ Personal Website] </small><br><br>'''Primary Area''': Applied Mathematics <br>'''Research Interests''': Electronic Structure and Many Body Problems; Quantum Molecular Dynamics; Multiscale Modeling and Analysis; Rare Events and Sampling Techniques
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[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/226 Ashwin Machanavajjhala] <br> <br>
'''Primary Area''': Systems <br>
'''Research Interests''': Data privacy, Systems for massive data analytics, Statistical methods for information extraction and entity resolution


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[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/bmm Bruce Maggs] <br>
[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/85 Sayan Mukherjee] <br> <br>
 
'''Primary Area''': Statistical Science <br>
<small>[https://users.cs.duke.edu/~bmm/ Personal Website]</small> <br><br>'''Primary Area''': Systems <br>'''Research Interests''': Distributed systems, including content delivery networks, computer networks, and computer and network security.
'''Reseach Interests''': Randomized algorithms in machine learning, Spectral theory for simplicial complexes, Computational topology


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[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/145 Scott Schmidler] <br> <br>
[https://scholars.duke.edu/person/scott.schmidler Scott Schmidler] <br>
'''Primary Area''': Statistical Science <br>
 
'''Research Interests''': Monte Carlo algorithms, Markov chain mixing times, Randomized algorithms, Approximate integration and approximate counting, Computational complexity, Problems in computational statistics, Statistical physics, Computational biology, Phylogenetics, Shape analysis
<small>[http://www2.stat.duke.edu/~scs/ Personal Website] </small><br><br>'''Primary Area''': Statistical Science <br>'''Research Interests''': Monte Carlo algorithms, Markov chain mixing times, Stochastic modeling, Bioinformatics, Machine learning, and Statistical computing
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|[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/faculty/94 Bruce Maggs] <br> <br>
'''Primary Area''': Systems <br>
'''Research Interests''': Distributed systems
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==Graduate Students==
== Graduate Students ==
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=== Current PhD Students ===
File:Abef.jpg|[http://www.cs.duke.edu/people/graduates/711 Abraham Frandsen]  
* [https://sites.google.com/view/ruoxu-cen Ruoxu Cen]
File:Syandamu.jpg|[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/graduates/885 Sravya Yandamuri]  
* [https://2014mchidamb.github.io/ Muthu Chidambaram]
File:Mo.jpg|[https://www.cs.duke.edu/people/graduates/930 Mo Zhou]
* Anish Hebbar
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* [https://benholmgren.github.io/personal-site/ Ben Holmgren]
 
* [https://fockee.github.io/ Ruoming Huang]
==Undergraduates==
* [https://rajiv256.github.io/ Rajiv Nagipogu]
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* Rahul Raychaudhury
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* [https://users.cs.duke.edu/~gs259/ Govind S. Sankar]
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* [https://sites.google.com/view/yiheng-shen/ Yiheng Shen]<br>
 
* Keegan Yao
==Recent Alumni==
* [https://users.cs.duke.edu/%7Emz159/ Mo Zhou]


===Postdocs===
== Recent Alumni ==
* Hsien-Chih Chang
=== Postdocs ===
* Anilesh Krishnaswamy  
* [https://holdenlee.github.io/ Holden Lee], 2022 (Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins)
* Xiao Hu
* [https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~xiaohu/ Xiao Hu], 2022 (Assistant Professor at UWaterloo)
* Yu Cheng, 2019 (Assistant Professor at UIC).
* [https://users.cs.duke.edu/~anilesh/ Anilesh Krishnaswamy], 2021 (Google)
* Kyle Fox, 2017 (Assistant Professor at UT Dallas)
* [https://hcsoso.github.io/ Hsien-Chih Chang], 2020 (Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College)
* Sungjin Im, 2013 (Assistant Professor at UC Merced)
* [https://cs.brown.edu/people/ycheng79/ Yu Cheng], 2019 (Assistant Professor at Brown University)
* Thomas Moelhave, 2013 (Scalable Algorithmics)
* [https://personal.utdallas.edu/~kyle.fox/ Emily Kyle Fox], 2017 (Associate Professor at UT Dallas)
* Swaminathan Sankaraman, 2013 (Akamai Technologies)
* [https://faculty.ucmerced.edu/sim3/ Sungjin Im], 2013 (Associate Professor at UC Merced)
* [http://moelhave.dk/ Thomas Moelhave], 2013 (Scalable Algorithmics)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/swaminathan-sankararaman-023b062b/ Swaminathan Sankaraman], 2013 (Akamai Technologies)


===PhDs===
=== PhDs ===
* Reza Alijani
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WoB6M2cAAAAJ&hl=en Chenwei Wu], 2023 (Huawei)
* Chenwei Wu  
* [https://sites.google.com/view/cerintaylor/home Erin Taylor], 2023 (Geometric Data Analytics)
* Erin Taylor  
* [https://users.cs.duke.edu/~asteiger/ Alexander Steiger], 2023 (Assistant Research Professor at Duke University)
* Kangning Wang
* [https://users.cs.duke.edu/~kanand/ Keerti Anand], 2022 (Goldman Sachs)
* Kevin Sun  
* [https://users.cs.duke.edu/~abef/ Abraham Frandsen], 2022 (Enveda Biosciences)
* Alexander Steiger
* [https://kevinsun.org/ Kevin Sun], 2022 (Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill)
* Xiang Wang
* [https://sites.google.com/view/kangningwang/home Kangning Wang], 2022 (Assistant Professor at Rutgers)
* Keerti Anand
* [https://users.cs.duke.edu/~xwang/ Xiang Wang], 2022 (Research Scientist at Meta)
* Yuan Deng
* [https://users.cs.duke.edu/~aaron/ Aaron Lowe], 2021 (Esri)
* Allen Xiao
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/reza-alijani-70909369/ Reza Alijani], 2020 (Google)
* Stavros Sintos
* [https://sites.google.com/view/yuandeng/home Yuan Deng], 2020 (Google Research)
* Aaron Lowe
* [https://sites.google.com/view/stavros-sintos/home Stavros Sintos], 2020 (Assistant Professor at UIC)
* Brandon Fain, 2019 (Assistant Research Professor at Duke University)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-xiao-12a0143a/ Allen Xiao], 2020 (Robinhood)
* Samuel Haney, 2019 (Tumult Labs)
* [https://sites.duke.edu/btfain/ Brandon Fain], 2019 (Assistant Research Professor at Duke University)
* Nathaniel Kell, 2018 (Assistant Professor at Denison University)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-haney-47a16819b/ Samuel Haney], 2019 (Tumult Labs)
* Seyed Zahedi, 2018 (Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-kell-5819076b/ Nathaniel Kell], 2018 (Assistant Professor at Denison University)
* Abhinandan Nath, 2018 (Mentor Graphics)
* [https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~smzahedi/ Seyed Zahedi], 2018 (Assistant Professor at UWaterloo)
* Tianqi Song, 2018 (Postdoc at Caltech)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinandan-nath-b4484a133/ Abhinandan Nath], 2018 (Mentor Graphics)
* Hieu Bui, 2017 (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=LYNUgUcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate Tianqi Song], 2018 (Postdoc at Caltech)
* Sudhanshu Garg, 2016 (LinkedIn)
* [https://engineering.catholic.edu/research-and-faculty/faculty-profiles/eecs/hieu-bui/index.html Hieu Bui], 2017 (Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America)
* Jiangwei Pan, 2016 (Facebook)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/su-garg/ Sudhanshu Garg], 2016 (LinkedIn)
* Janardhan Kulkarni, 2015 (Postdoc at Microsoft Research, Redmond)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiangwei-pan-66a62a13/ Jiangwei Pan], 2016 (Netflix)
* Salman Parsa, 2015 (Postdoc at ENS Paris)
* [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/jakul/ Janardhan Kulkarni], 2015 (Principal Researcher at Microsoft)
* You Wu, 2015 (Google)
* [https://www.cdm.depaul.edu/Faculty-and-Staff/Pages/faculty-info.aspx?fid=1577 Salman Parsa], 2015 (Assistant Professor at DePaul University)
* Xiaoming Xu, 2015 (Lifecode -> Google)
* [https://research.google/people/YouWillWu/ You Wu], 2015 (Google Research)
* Wuzhou Zhang, 2015 (Apple)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaoming-xu-b64508b3/ Xiaoming Xu], 2015 (Google)
* Albert Yu, 2013 (Amazon)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/wuzhouzhang/ Wuzhou Zhang], 2015 (Apple)
* Sharath Raghvendra, 2012 (Postdoc at Stanford -> Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-yu-45047378/ Albert Yu], 2013 (Amazon)
* Sayan Bhattacharya, 2012 (Postdoc at MPI Saarbrucken -> Assistant Professor at IMSc, Chennai)
* [https://website.cs.vt.edu/people/faculty/sharath-raghvendra.html Sharath Raghvendra], 2012 (Associate Professor at Virginia Tech)
* Harish Chandran, 2012 (Google)
* [https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~u1671158/ Sayan Bhattacharya], 2012 (Associate Professor at University of Warwick)
* Nikhil Gopalkrishnan, 2012 (Postdoc at Harvard)
* [https://sites.google.com/view/harishchandran/experience Harish Chandran], 2012 (Google)
* Shashidhara K. Ganjugunte, 2011 (Mentor Graphics)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-gopalkrishnan-863111176/ Nikhil Gopalkrishnan], 2012 (3EO Health)
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=GFFNafYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate Shashidhara K. Ganjugunte], 2011 (Mentor Graphics)


===Undergraduates===
=== Undergraduates ===
* Haofeng (Fred) Zhang, 2018 (PhD studet at Harvard)
* [https://profiles.stanford.edu/ivan-aleksandar-mavrov Ivan-Aleksandar Mavrov], 2023 (PhD student at Stanford)
* Arun Ganesh, 2017 (PhD student at UC Berkeley)
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=38WU0iEAAAAJ&hl=en Zeyu Shen], 2023 (PhD student at Cornell)
* Rex Ying, 2016 (PhD student at Stanford)
* [https://sites.google.com/view/william-he William He], 2022 (PhD student at CMU)
* William Victor, 2016 (Applied Predictive Technologies)
* [https://ultimatejupiter.github.io Xingyu (Jupiter) Zhu], 2022 (PhD student at Princeton)
* Niel Lebeck, 2014 (PhD student at UW Seattle)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/liang-charles-lyu-a24137133/ Charles Lyu], 2020 (PhD student at MIT)
* Ben Berg, 2013
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/xingyu-chen-029865b3/ Xingyu Chen], 2019 (Facebook)
* [https://fredzhang.me/ Haofeng (Fred) Zhang], 2018 (PhD at Harvard -&gt; PhD student at UC Berkeley)
* [https://www.arunganesh.com/ Arun Ganesh], 2017 (PhD at UC Berkeley -&gt; Google Research)
* [https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/ying-rex/ Rex Ying], 2016 (PhD at Stanford -&gt; Assistant Professor at Yale)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-victor-7885a485/ William Victor], 2016 (Applied Predictive Technologies)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nlebeck/ Niel Lebeck], 2014 (PhD at UW Seattle -&gt; Google)
* [https://bsb20.github.io/ Ben Berg], 2013 (PhD student at CMU -&gt; Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill)
* Siyang Chen, 2012 (Google)
* Siyang Chen, 2012 (Google)
* Peng Shi, 2010 (PhD student at MIT)
* [https://alexbeutel.com/ Alex Beutel], 2011 (Google)
* [https://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/Peng-Shi/ Peng Shi], 2010 (PhD student at MIT -&gt; Assistant Professor at USC Marshall School of Business)

Latest revision as of 23:49, 2 June 2025

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

Pankaj.jpg

Pankaj Agarwal

Personal Website

Research Interests: Computational & discrete geometry, Shape analysis, GIS and ecologic modeling, Spatial databases, Sensor networks, Trajectory data analysis

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Robert Calderbank

Research Interests: Error correcting codes, Combinatorics, Electrical Engineering

Brandonfain.jpg

Brandon Fain

Personal Website

Research Interests: Fair resource allocation, Algorithmic game theory, Computational social choice

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Rong Ge

Personal Website

Research Interests: Algorithms, machine learning, matrix/tensor decompositions, optimization.

Siqiliu.jpg

Siqi Liu

Personal Website

Research Interests: High-dimensional expanders, Error correcting codes, Pseudorandomness, Geometry in groups

Kamesh.jpg

Kamesh Munagala

Personal Website

Research Interests: Approximation and Online algorithms, Stochastic optimization, Decision theory, Scheduling theory, Computational Economics and Algorithmic mechanism design

Debmalya.jpg

Debmalya Panigrahi

Personal Website

Research Interests: Graph algorithms, Online and approximation algorithms, Combinatorial optimization, Applied algorithms

Reif.jpg

John H. Reif

Personal Website

Research Interests: Biomolecular Computing and Self Assembly of DNA Nanostructures, Algorithms, Quantum computing, Optical computing

Rossman.jpeg

Benjamin Rossman

Personal Website

Research Interests: Computational complexity theory, Circuit complexity, Finite model theory, Combinatorics

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Alex Steiger

Personal Website

Research Interests: Computational Geometry, Graph Algorithms

Xiaobai.png

Xiaobai Sun

Research Interests: Numerical Analysis, Matrix Theory, High-performance Scientific Computing and Parallel Computing

Fan.png

Fan Wei

Personal Website

Research Interests: Extremal combinatorics, probabilistic combinatorics, applications of combinatorics to computer science

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Anru Zhang

Personal Website

Research Interests: Tensor Learning, High-dimensional Statistical Inference, Statistical Learning Theory, Generative Models, Electronic Health Records, Microbiome Studies

Affiliated Faculty

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Bruce Donald

Personal Website

Primary Area: Artificial Intelligence
Research Interests: Computational biology, chemistry and biophysics, Protein modeling, Optimization, Game theory for pathogen resistance, Statistical mechanics, and Geometric computing

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Jianfeng Lu

Personal Website

Primary Area: Applied Mathematics
Research Interests: Electronic Structure and Many Body Problems; Quantum Molecular Dynamics; Multiscale Modeling and Analysis; Rare Events and Sampling Techniques

Bmm.jpg

Bruce Maggs

Personal Website

Primary Area: Systems
Research Interests: Distributed systems, including content delivery networks, computer networks, and computer and network security.

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Scott Schmidler

Personal Website

Primary Area: Statistical Science
Research Interests: Monte Carlo algorithms, Markov chain mixing times, Stochastic modeling, Bioinformatics, Machine learning, and Statistical computing

Graduate Students

Current PhD Students

Recent Alumni

Postdocs

PhDs

Undergraduates

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