Samir Khuller

Mailing Address/Fax

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

Current Position: Professor and Chair, Computer Science Department. Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award (UM) 2007-2008.

I gave a University wide lecture 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. A video of a recent talk based on the 2007 talk is available.

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:

• Google Tech Talk (Video on You Tube)
• Research Stuff + Students
• Student Awards
• Bio
• TALKS
• Publications
• The Gas Station Project
• The RideShare Project
• Thermal Scheduling Project
• Grant Page
• DBLP List of Papers
• Course Stuff
• Other Links
• Awards
• Tennis Group Website
• Professional Activities
• A new Book Series for Algorithms
• Lecture Notes(ps)
• Lecture notes (pdf) for Graduate Algorithms
• CFP: Rajeev Motwani: A Special Issue
• My Blog

• CMSC 198I: The Science behind Computing: What makes Web Search, Navigation Systems and Social Media Work? (Spring 2012)
• CMSC858T: Algorithms for Scheduling (Spring 2012)
• CMSC 198I: The Science behind Computing: What makes Web Search, Navigation Systems and Social Media Work? (Spring 2011)
• CSMC 651: Graduate Algorithms (Spring 2011)
• CMSC858Y: Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity (Spring 2010)
• CMSC 198K: The Science behind Computing (Fall 2009)
• CMSC 451: Algorithms (Spring 2009))
• 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)

Events:

Pictures:

• In Memory
• My Undergrad Team (photo from May 2011)
• My Students (photo from Dec 2011)
• My Students (photo from 2009)
• My Students (photo from SODA 2008)
• Useful information for any graduate student
• My sister illustrated these beautiful children's books
• A picture from my visit to Japan
• Moza
• Math Olympiad Team