Aravind Srinivasan

Hi, welcome to my home-page. I am a Professor, Computer Science and UMIACS, at the University of Maryland, College Park.

My main research-interests are:

Algorithms and combinatorial optimization;
Probabilistic methods in computer science;
Networking (wireless and peer-to-peer), social networks, and distributed algorithms;
Algorithms, network science, and technology for public health (e.g., networked phenomena in infectious diseases, sensing, optimization, and climatic effects).

Here are my short bio and a link to my CV.

For prospective students: Please read this if you wish to email me about admissions or about working with me.

Education:	B.Tech. (Computer Science), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 1989. Advisor: Prof. C. Pandu Rangan Ph.D. (Computer Science), Cornell University, 1993. Advisor: Prof. David B. Shmoys
Postdoc:	Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and DIMACS (Rutgers), 1993-94.
Publications:	My publications and co-authors.
Teaching:	Teaching in Spring 2011: CMSC 858E, Models and Algorithms for Socio-Technical Networks, a new graduate course. HONR 219J, The Science Behind Social Networks and the Web, a new Honors course. My previous courses.
Students:	Current PhD Students: Tom DuBois and Bo Han. Former PhD Students: Dr. David Levin, HP Labs; Dr. Srinivasan Parthasarathy, IBM Research; Dr. Nan Wang, Goldman Sachs. (Han and Levin co-advised with Bobby Bhattacharjee).
Editorial Boards:	Managing Editor, Theory of Computing (ToC), an open-access journal. Associate Editor, Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS). Associate Editor, Networks. Editor, Journal of Discrete Algorithms (JDA). Guest Co-editor, special issue of the SIAM Journal on Computing for selected papers from STOC 2010. Guest Co-editor, special issue of Theory of Computing Systems (2004) for selected papers from SPAA 2004. Guest Co-editor, special issue of JCSS (2004) for selected papers from STOC 2003.
Program committees:	INFOCOM (2011, 2010, 2009), STOC (2010, 2003), DCOSS 2010, PODC 2009, GECCO 2009, RANDOM (2007, 2000), FST & TCS (2007, 2001, 1998), SPAA 2004, DIAL-M-POMC (2005, 2002, 2000), ASIAN 1999, ISAAC (1999, 1996), SODA 1998, SWAT 1998.
Links:	My links are here.
Contact:	Room 3263, A. V. Williams Building Dept. of Computer Science University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD 20742, USA Phone: 301-405-2695, Fax: 301-405-6707 E-mail: srin AT cs DOT umd DOT edu

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