Affiliations: Member of the Operations Research group; I also work with
faculty/students
in theoretical computer
science and ICME
and serve on the technical advisory board for Twitter Inc.
Research interests: Methodological:
Algorithms, optimization, stochastics, graph theory. Applications:
Internet commerce and social networks; Network and Internet algorithms; molecular algorithms.
Publications, students, and committees
Widescope:
how would you reduce the budget deficit?
Brief Bio
Teaching
(2010-11):
Aut: MS&E
317/CS263. Algorithms for Modern Data Models
Win: CME 309/CS 365, Randomized Algorithms. Last year's page.
Spr:
MS&E 111/ENGR 62, Introduction to optimization. Also see
the web page from two years ago.
Old Classes:
MS&E
325, Topics in stochastic optimization, Win 2008-09
MS&E 235,
Internet Commerce, Spr 2008-09
CME
352: Molecular
Algorithms, Win 2007-08
MS&E 212/112,
Mathematical programming and combinatorial optimization, Spring 2005-06
MS&E 319, Network
algorithms, Winter 2005-06
MS&E 130/231, Information
Systems, Autumn 2005-06
MS&E 319/CS 369X,
Approximation algorithms for optimization problems, Winter 2004-05
MS&E 319/CS 369X, Molecular self-assembly: models and algorithms, Spring 2003-04
MS&E 317: Advanced Combinatorial Optimization, Autumn 2003-04
Personal:
Locality: A painting in
honor of Rajeev Motwani. Rest In Peace.
Some Hindi poetry by my Dad
Some Photos
A prayer for Pakistan.
A Sarcoma fund-raising page.
