Santosh S. Vempala

Distinguished Professor, 2007-
Professor, College of Computing, 2006-
Director, Vision Aid and ARC ThinkTank

Spring 2008 course: Compute for Good

Family (in r.c.o.) Pablo (7 June 07!), Sofia, Rosa, Naresh, Mom and Dad.

Research areas Algorithms, Geometry, Randomness.

Papers listed by year of publication or under the following topics:
Random walks and convex geometry (here's a survey and a recent AIM workshop)
Spectral algorithms and representations (here's a talk from COLT 2007)
Optimization, Learning theory, Network routing and security

UROC Models for Categorization

Book The Random Projection Method (AMS, 2004; paperback 2006)

Advisees Current: Charlie Brubaker, Karthekeyan Chandrasekharan, Daniel Dadush
Past: Amit Deshpande (Ph.D. 2007), John Dunagan (Ph.D. 2002), Alantha Newman (Ph.D. 2004),
David Pritchard (M.Eng. 2005), Luis Rademacher (Ph.D. 2007), Adrian Vetta (Ph.D. 2002),
Grant Wang (Ph.D. 2006).

Postdocs Navin Goyal (ARC, 2007-), Adam Kalai (NSF, 2001-2003), Luis Rademacher (2007-).

Courses Spectral Algorithms (Fall 2007)
Convex Geometry and Random Walks.
Combinatorial Optimization.
Geometric Tools for Algorithms.
Random Walks and Polynomial-Time Algorithms.
An Eye for Elegance.

Editor Theory of Computing (a free, electronic journal)
Algorithmica

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