Santosh S. Vempala Distinguished Professor, 2007- Professor, College of Computing, 2006- Director, Vision Aid and ARC ThinkTank Fall 2010 course: Spectral Algorithms!

Family (in r.c.o.)	Pablo, Sofia, Rosa, Naresh, Mom and Dad.
Research areas	Algorithms, Geometry, Randomness.
Papers	View all papers or by topic Algorithmic convex geometry (here's a survey and an AIM workshop) Spectral algorithms and representations (a tutorial at SIGCOMM 2008 and a talk from COLT 2007) Optimization (continuous and discrete) Learning theory Network routing and security C4G
Books	The Random Projection Method (AMS, 2004; paperback 2006) Spectral Algorithms (new!).
Advisees	Current Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran Daniel Dadush Ying Xiao Anand Louis Past PhD: Charlie Brubaker (Ph.D. 2009) Amit Deshpande (Ph.D. 2007) John Dunagan (Ph.D. 2002) Alantha Newman (Ph.D. 2004) Luis Rademacher (Ph.D. 2007) Adrian Vetta (Ph.D. 2002) Grant Wang (Ph.D. 2006) MS: Abhisheak Iyer (C4G 2009) Ruban Monu (C4G 2010) Ashwin Paranjpe (C4G 2010) David Pritchard (2005) Postdocs Elena Grigorescu (ARC/CI, joint with Chris Peikert, 2010-) Lev Reyzin (ARC/Simons, joint with Nina Balcan, 2010-) Navin Goyal (ARC, 2007-2008) Adam Kalai (NSF, 2001-2003) Luis Rademacher (2007-2009)
Courses	View course pages Computability and Algorithms(Spring 2010) C4G: Computing for Good (Fall 2009) Algorithmic Convex Geometry (Fall 2008) Spectral Algorithms (Fall 2007) Combinatorial Optimization Geometric Tools for Algorithms Random Walks and Polynomial-Time Algorithms An Eye for Elegance
Editor	Theory of Computing (a free, electronic journal)
	Algorithmica
UROC	Models for Categorization
Search engine	EigenCluster