Algorithms & Randomness Center and Thinktank (ARC)

Assistant Professor

Biography

Maria Florina Balcan received her doctorate in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Avrim Blum where her thesis received the Distinguished Dissertation Award. From October 2008 until July  2009, she was a postdoc at Microsoft Research New England. Her main research interests are Computational and Statistical  Machine  Learning, Computational Aspects in Economics and Game Theory, and Algorithms.

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ADVANCE Professor of Computing

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Dr. Randall has established an exciting program in a new field of interdisciplinary work bridging statistical physics and computer science. Her research is in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, and involves designing Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms for counting and sampling from large sets of combinatorial structures. Dr. Randall is doing pioneering work in providing fast polynomial time algorithms with rigorous and provable performance guarantees.

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Distinguished Professor

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Merrick L. Furst, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, runs commercialization and new venture creation and directs undergraduate programs and faculty development in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He recently founded the anti-botnet startup, Damballa, Inc. Prior to GT he was a professor at UC Berkeley, president of the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley and CEO of Essential Surfing Gear, Inc., which grew to 53 employees before being sold in 2000. He also helped establish a new high school in San Francisco.

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Assistant Professor

Office:

KACB Office 2134

Email:

praghave [at] cc [dot] gatech [dot] edu (Send Email)

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Professor and Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing

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A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Lipton's professional career has been primarily in academia. He has held faculty appointments at Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University before joining the faculty in the college of Computing at Georgia Tech. In addition to his computer science academic appointments, Dr. Lipton was the founding director of a computer science research laboratory for the Panasonic Corporation and is currently a chief consulting scientist at Telcordia (formerly known as Bellcore).

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Associate Professor

Office:

KACB Office 2136

Email:

venkat [at] cc [dot] gatech [dot] edu (Send Email)

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Administrative Professional III

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Dani Denton provides administrative support for the Theory research group, Kishore Ramachandran and the Samsung Tech Advanced Research (STAR) Center in the School of Computer Science.

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Professor, Joint Appt. with School of Mathematics

Director, Algorithms and Randomness Center and ThinkTank

Biography

Prasad Tetali got his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Mathematical Sciences Center at AT&T Bell labs (Murray Hill, NJ), before joining Georgia Tech in 1994. He is a Professor in the School of Mathematics, with a joint appointment in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. As of April 2011, he is also the Director of Algorithms & Randomness Center and ThinkTank at Georgia Tech. He is a SIAM Fellow (2009) and has been the Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics since 2009.

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Administrative Assistant II

Office:

KACB Office 3121

Email:

ndongi [at] cc [dot] gatech [dot] edu (Send Email)

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Distinguished Professor

Biography

Santosh Vempala joined the College of Computing in the fall of 2006 as a professor in the Computing Science and Systems division. He recently spearheaded the Algorithms and Randomness Center and ThinkTank at Georgia Tech, and served as its first director from 2006 until 2011. Vempala's research interests include algorithms, randomness and geometry. He graduated from CMU in 1997 being advised by Avrim Blum and then went to MIT until 2006 except for a year as a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley.

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