Eric Vigoda
Professor; Associate School Chair
Biography
Dr. Vigoda's research focuses on randomized algorithms, particularly Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms. Vigoda's acclaimed result (with collaborators M. Jerrum and A. Sinclair) is an efficient algorithm for estimating the permanent of a matrix.
His work has connections to phase transitions in Statistical Physics and phylogenetic reconstruction in Evolutionary Biology.
- Office:
- KACB Office 2146
eric [dot] vigoda [at] cc [dot] gatech [dot] edu (Send Email)
Affiliations
- School of Computer Science
- College of Computing
- Algorithms & Randomness Center and Thinktank (ARC)
