Santosh S. Vempala Distinguished Professor, 2007- Professor, College of Computing, 2006- Director, Vision Aid and ARC ThinkTank Spring 2010: Computability and Algorithms Fall 2009: Computing for Good Fall 2008: Algorithmic Convex Geometry Postdoc positions available

Family (in r.c.o.)	Pablo, Sofia, Rosa, Naresh, Mom and Dad.
Research areas	Algorithms, Geometry, Randomness.
Papers	View all papers or by topic Algorithmic convex geometry (here's a survey and an AIM workshop) Spectral algorithms and representations (a tutorial at SIGCOMM 2008 and a talk from COLT 2007) Optimization (continuous and discrete) Learning theory Network routing and security C4G
Books	The Random Projection Method (AMS, 2004; paperback 2006) Spectral Algorithms (new!).
Advisees	Current Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran Daniel Dadush David Rutter Stephen Thomas(C4G) Past Charlie Brubaker (Ph.D. 2009) Amit Deshpande (Ph.D. 2007) John Dunagan (Ph.D. 2002) Abhisheak Iyer (C4G M.S. 2009) 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, 2007-2008) Adam Kalai (NSF, 2001-2003) Luis Rademacher (2007-2009)
Courses	View course pages C4G: Computing for Good (Fall 2009) Algorithmic Convex Geometry (Fall 2008) Spectral Algorithms (Fall 2007) 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
UROC	Models for Categorization
Search engine	EigenCluster