Faculty
Patrice Belleville
Research interests: computational geometry.
Anne Condon
Research interests: computational complexity theory and design of algorithms, and their applications in bioinformatics, biomolecular computation, hardware verification, and combinatorial auctions.
Will Evans
Research interests: computational geometry, graph drawing, information theory, data compression, and algorithms in general.
Michael Friedlander
Research interests: mathematical optimization, mathematics of information, high-dimensional data analysis, numerical methods.
Joel Friedman
Research interests: Laplacians, eigenvalues, and expansion, primarily on graphs. Also explicit construction questions, primarily from theoretical computer science.
Nick Harvey
Research interests: algorithm design, combinatorial optimization, application of algorithms in computer systems and machine learning.
Cinda Heeren
Research interests: computational geometry.
David Kirkpatrick
Research interests: computational complexity, graph theory and computational geometry.
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Research interests: algorithm design, combinatorial optimization, application of algorithms in computer systems and machine learning.
Mark Schmidt
Research interests: machine learning, numerical optimization.
Bruce Shepherd
Research interests: combinatorial optimization, network design, approximation algorithms, graph theory.
Graduate Students
Sedigheh (Nasim) Zolaktaf
Affiliated Faculty
Inanc Birol
Research interests: bioinformatics, computational biology, probabilistic data structures, de novo assembly, genome annotation, antimicrobial resistance, cancer genomics.
Khanh Dao Duc
Research Interests: Computational and Mathematical Biology, Bioinformatics.
Hu Fu
Research interests: algorithmic game theory, auctions, pricing.
Holger Hoos
Research interests: algorithmics, bioinformatics, computational intelligence and computer music.
Tom McCormick
Research interests: network flows, discrete optimization.
Joseph (Joe) Paat
Research interests: mixed integer programming, combinatorial optimization, parameterized complexity, operations research.
Yaniv Plan
Research interests: high-dimensional probability, compressed sensing.
Maurice Queyranne
Research interests: submodular optimization, discrete optimization.
Christopher Thomas Ryan
Discrete and infinite-dimensional optimization
Grad Student Alumni
Administrative Staff
Holly Kwan
Group Assistant