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Address:                    MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi
                                   Computer Science Department
                                   A.V. Williams Bldg., Room 3249
                                 College Park, MD 20742
                                   USA
Phone:                     301-405-2741
Fax:                          301-405-6707
Email:                      [the first 8 letters of my lastname]@cs.umd.edu OR
                                   [the first 8 letters of my lastname]@mit.edu

I am Jack and Rita G. Minker Associate Professor of Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland at College Park. In addition, I hold a Research Affiliate position in MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). I am also a Permanent Member of Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) at Rutgers.

My research is supported in part by NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, Google Faculty Research Award, University of Maryland Research and Scholarship Award (RASA), and a few other DARPA and AFOSR grants.

Starting June 1, 2012 or later, we have one PostDoc position available in our theory group of Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. The PostDoc position is initially for one year, but it can be extended by mutual consent to one more year. The area that we are searching for is Algorithms esp. Algorithmic Game Theory and may involve one semester of light teaching to add teaching experience for a later academic job. Please email your CV and three letters of recommendations by e-mail to me [my lastname]@gmail.com. The subject of the e-mail should be “POSTDOC2011”.

Before joining UMD, I was a Senior Researcher in the Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science group at AT&T Labs - Research. Before joining to AT&T Research Labs, I was a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (with ALADDIN project) and a one-year Postdoctoral Associate in MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) from which I also earned my Ph.D. under supervision of Professor Erik D. Demaine and Professor Tom Leighton (Sep. 2001- May 2005). I got my M.Sc. from the Computer Science Department of the University of Waterloo (Sep. 2000- Sep. 2001) and my B.Sc. from the Computer Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology (Sep 1997-Sep 2000). During my doctoral studies, I also worked at Microsoft Research Theory group and Department of Mathematical Sciences at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

Teaching:

Introduction to Algorithms, undergraduate course at the University of Maryland in Spring 2012.
Network Design Foundation, graduate course at the University of Maryland in Fall 2011.
Introduction to Algorithms, undergraduate course at the University of Maryland in Spring 2011.
Algorithmic Game Theory, graduate course at the University of Maryland in Fall 2010.

Advanced Algorithms: Topics in Game Theory, graduate course at Rutgers University in Spring 2009.

Network Design and Game Theory, graduate course at Rutgers University in Spring 2008.

· I was a Guest Editor for ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG) special issue on selected papers from SODA 2008.

· Conferences and Workshop Committees:

1. Technical program committee, 32nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications ( INFOCOM), Turin, Italy, April 2013.

2. Co-organizer, Seminar on Bidimensional Structures: Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Logic, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, March 2013.

3. Technical program committee, 31th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications ( INFOCOM), Orlando, FL, March 2012.

4. Co-organizer, Workshop on Approximation Techniques, Princeton University, June 2011.

5. Program committee, the 23st Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, (SPAA), San Jose, CA, 2011.

6. Program committee, the 16th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON), Nha Trang, Vietnam, July 2010.

7. Co-organizing Seminar on Fixed Parameter Algorithms and Approximation Algorithms, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, December 2009.

8. Organizing Network Design and Algorithms Session, INFORMS, San Diego, CA, October 2009.

9. Program committee, the 19th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Mathematics (SODA), San Francisco, CA, January 2008.

10. Program committee, International Workshop on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IWPEC), Victoria, Canada, May 2008.

11. Organizing Network Design Session, INFORMS, Washington, DC, October 2008.

12. Program committee, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms (WASA), Dallas, TX, October 2008.

13. Organizing Optimization in Wireless Network Session, INFORMS, Pittsburgh, November 2006.

14. Program Committee, the 2nd ACIS International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks (SAWN), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2006.

15. Program Committee, the 11th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC), Tehran, January 2006.

Publications

Studnets: Vahid Liaghat, Rajesh Chitnis, Reza Khani, Hossein Bateni (mentoring on his thesis, now at Google Research)

Curriculum vitae in PS / PDF format (including list of publications)

My co-authors from DBLP

Research Interests:

Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Auction Design and Game Theory
Networking and Wireless Network Design
Embeddings and Its Algorithmic Aspects
Random Structures and Algorithms
Algorithmic Graph Theory
Computational Complexity

This page has been developed since Feb 5, 2001.