Photo by Marty Kerker

I am no longer the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Please contact Ram Sridhar or Jaynee Straw if you have any UG related questions.

Research
I am interested in Theoretical Computer Science and belong to the Algorithms and Theory group at UB.
Theory Seminar

Specific topics of interest include theory of error-correcting codes, game theory and algorithmic mechanism design, approximation algorithms, sublinear algorithms, computational complexity, probabilistically checkable proofs, finite field theory and applications.

    Publications (by research area, DBLP listing).

• A Science Magazine article on list and local decoding of error correcting codes.
• Slides from my CSE501 Research Overview talk.
• Thesis (Co-winner, William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award, 2007) .

Current Students

• Jimmy Dobler.
• Jesse Hartloff.

• Swapnoneel Roy (Ph.D., 2013. First Employment: University of North Florida, Jacksonville.)
• Steve Uurtamo (Ph.D., 2013. First Employment: Groupon, Palo Alto.)

My research is supported by

• an NSF CAREER Award,
• NSF grant TC-1115670,
• NSF grant CCF-1161196,
• Gift from LogicBlox.

Draft of a book on Coding Theory

• CSE 545, Error Correcting Codes: Combinatorics, Algorithms and Applications. (Course Wiki)

Service

• Program Committee Member, TAMC 2013, ITCS 2013, CATS 2013, RANDOM 2012, RANDOM 2010.
• Co-organizer, SPARC-II, SPARC-I.
• Co-organizer, EaGL-V, EaGL-IV, EaGL-III, EaGL-II, EaGL-I.
• Chair, Organizing Committee, 15th COCOON, July 13-15, 2009.