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Chinmay D. Karande
Graduate Student,
College of Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Room #2124, Klaus Advanced Computing Building,
266, Ferst Drive,
Atlanta, GA 30332
1-404-385-2026
ckarande [at] cc.gatech.edu
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ckarande


RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Approximation Algorithms, Mechanism Design, Markets and Game Theory
EDUCATION
  • Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
    Currently enrolled.
  • B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
    Final GPA: 9.56/10.00
PUBLICATIONS
  • Market Equilibrium with Transaction Costs - with Nikhil Devanur and Sourav Chakraborty. Under submission. Oct 2009.
  • Approximability of Combinatorial Problems with Multi-agent Submodular Cost Functions - with Gagan Goel, Pushkar Tripathi and Lei Wang. To appear in FOCS 2009.
  • Speeding up Algorithms on Compressed Webgraphs - with Kumar Chellapilla and Reid Andersen. In proceedings of ACM Web Search and Data Mining (ACM WSDM) 2009. PDF
  • A note on the problem of reporting maximal cliques with Frederic Cazals. Theoretical Computer Science - Volume 407:564-568, Nov. 2008. URL
  • Computing Market Equilibrium: Beyond Weak Gross Substitutes with Nikhil Devanur. In proceedings of Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE) 2007. PDF
  • An Algorithm for Reporting Maximal C-Cliques with Frederic Cazals. Theoretical Computer Science - Volume 349, Issue 3:484-490, Dec 2005. URL
  • The Effect of Malice on Social Optimum in Congestion Games - Manuscript. Feb 2008. URL
  • Polynomially Correlated Knapsack is NP-Complete : Tech Report. July 2007. URL
  • Non-preemptive Precedence Constraint Scheduling : Senior Thesis at IIT Bombay, May 2006.
  • NP-completeness of Flow Shop Scheduling : Junior Thesis at IIT Bombay, May 2005.
PATENTS
  • Faster Algorithms for Compressed Web Graphs - Patent Filed (Microsoft Live Labs)
  • Short Paths in Web Graphs with Small Query Time - Patent Filed (Microsoft Live Labs)
INVITED TALKS
  • Market Equilibrium with Transaction Costs - INFORMS 2009, San Diego.
  • Spam Classification using First Principles - Microsoft Tech Talk (July 2007)
  • Combinatoric Aspects of Geometric Shape Matching - INRIA Sophia Antipolis (July 2006)
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
  • ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition: World finalist in 2006 and 2008.
  • Aditya Birla Scholarship: Scholarship holder 2002-2006.
  • IIT JEE 2002: All India Rank 33.
  • Indian National Physics Olympiad 2002 (INPhO): Among 30 Gold Medalists from all over India.
  • Indian National Chemistry Olympiad 2002 (INChO): Among 30 Gold Medalists from all over India.
WORK EXPERIENCE
  • Research Intern positions
    • Microsoft Research, Redmond - Summer 2009.
    • Microsoft Live Labs, Redmond - Summer 2008.
    • Microsoft Corporation, Redmond - Summer 2007.
    • INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France - Summer 2005 and 2006.
    • School of Computing, National University of Singapore - Summer 2004.
  • Teaching Assistant for CS1050 Honors at Georgia Tech in Spring 2008 and 2009.
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