Samir Khuller

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For information on research activities in the Algorithms and Theory Group at Maryland .

Current Position: Professor, CS and UMIACS. Assoc. Chair for Graduate Studies.

Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award (UM) 2007-2008.

I gave a University wide lecture in CSIC 1115 at 4pm on Mon Oct 29th (2007).

Title: Whom to marry, how to cook and where to buy gas: solving dilemmas of daily life, one algorithm at a time

Slides are available. Campus TV shot a video, but the audio is simply awful and its not worth viewing.

Academic Degrees:

• B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1986. IIT makes it to Dilbert.
• M.S., Cornell University, Ithaca. May 1989.
• Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca. Aug 1990.

My Activities:

• Want to contact me? Please read this.
• Google Tech Talk (Video on You Tube!)
• CMSC498K: Algorithms for Massive Data Sets and Data Mining (Spring 2008)
• CMSC858K: Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity (Fall 2007)
• CMSC 451: Algorithms (Fall 2005))
• HONR 278J: Under the Hood: Algorithms and their Applications (Spring 2004) See also Offical Honors Page
• CSMC 651: Graduate Algorithms (Fall 2003)
• Research Stuff + Students
• Publications
• The Gas Station Project
• Grant Page
• Course Stuff
• Other Links
• Awards
• Tennis Group Website
• Professional Activities
• A new Book Series for Algorithms
• Lecture Notes for Graduate Algorithms

Events:

• The CATS Seminar will meet on Fri's, at 1pm in 4185 AVW. A few talks might be at a different place/time.
• 19th Maryland Theory Day (May 25, 2005).
• Bertinoro Workshop on Scheduling and Communication (2004)
• 18th Maryland Theory Day (Mar 31, 2000).
• Uzi Vishkin and I organized the 17th Maryland Theoretical Computer Science Day (Mar 20, 1998).
• Checkout the web page for the Maryland Facility Location Day on Oct 26th (1996).
• I organized the Maryland Theoretical Computer Science Day (1995).
• DBLP List of Papers

Pictures:

• Useful information for any graduate student
• My sister illustrated these beautiful children's books
• A picture from my visit to Japan
• Moza