Andrea S. LaPaugh                                    



Professor,  Department of Computer Science,

e-mail: aslp at cs dot    dot edu

phone: (609) 258-4568

fax: (609) 258-1771

US Mail:
Dept. of Computer Science
35 Olden St.              
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08540

 


      


Research Areas

Information Discovery for large-scale digital collections

Today's extremely large collections of digital information present problems in the management, retrieval, and analysis of information. The Web is particularly a problem because anyone and everyone can put (good and bad) information on the Web. How can the providers of search and data organization services do better in providing relevant and trustworthy information? What new information can be gleaned from digital collections through their structure and interrelationships?  How can the information from social networks be used to enhance the analysis of information?  The research to find answers to these questions has both a strong algorithm design component and a strong systems component, the latter stemming from the need for distributed computing methods to efficiently work with the huge amount of data being created.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of Digital Systems

Professor LaPaugh has worked extensively in the development of algorithms for problems in digital design. A major area of research has been VLSI circuit layout: investigating the interactions between placement and detailed routing. She has developed algorithms that use these interactions to find better placements for circuit components. An important application of the work is in the placement of hierarchically defined layouts.

Another focus of Professor LaPaugh's research has been in the synthesis and verification of digital systems from high-level descriptions. One project in this area was the representation and verification of timing requirements for asynchronous digital systems. Another was the scheduling of program iterations on hardware (software pipelining). Professor LaPaugh has explored the relationship between techniques used by hardware synthesis and program compilation. Many issues are shared by compiler writers for multi-issue machines and synthesis tool writers for special-purpose hardware.

Algorithm Foundations

Much of Professor LaPaugh's work is based on the principles of combinatorial algorithm design. In addition to her work in application areas, she has developed and analyzed algorithms for theoretical combinatorial problems such as graph structure problems.


Recent Teaching

of general interest:  Resources for Projects in Information Retrieval, Data Mining and Complex Network Analysis



Works

Selected Publications

Ph.D. dissertations advised



last updated Mon Jul 25 16:44:18 EDT 2016