Research



Academic History

I have a B.S. from Yale in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Operations Research and Information Engineering. My thesis research was supervised by Éva Tardos.

Research Interests

My research is in theoretical computer science, especially optimization, combinatorics and the design, analysis, and implementation of computer algorithms. Currently, I am working on the design, analysis, and efficient implementation of polynomial-time algorithms for network flow problems, including generalized flows and multicommodity flows. Generalized flows model the shipment of a single commodity though a network which "leaks." Some applications include shipping oil, optimal currency conversion, and scheduling. Multicommodity flows can model the shipment of several commodities through a common network. Some applications include: routing communication messages, VLSI design, and maintaining sparsity with Gaussian elimination.



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