Research Interests
algorithms, operations research, scheduling, foundations of machine learning, distributed computing, and large data analysis.
Software Projects
- Backprop with Approximate Activations for Memory-efficient Network Training.
Paper. Project Website.
PhD Students & Alumni
- Kefu Lu. Graduated 2019. First position: Washington and Lee University
- Thomas Lavastida Graduated 2022. First position: Jindal School of Management. University of Texas at Dallas
- Yuyan Wang Graduated 2022. Google.
- Rudy Zhou · Microsoft
- Heather Newman · Vassar College
- Lin An · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Aidin Niaparast · Google
- Helia Niaparast
- Stephen Arndt
Long Term PhD Visitors
- Marilena Leichter (TU Munich)
- Chenyang Xu (Zhejiang University)
- Ruilong Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)
Undergraduate Students
- Shanjiawen (Helen) Zhao. 2021 Research Project.
- Matt Abbott. 2017 Summer REU.
- Bryce Bagley. 2017 Spring and Summer.
- Geoff Converse. 2016 Summer REU. → PhD student in applied mathematics at the University of Iowa
- Alyssa Shofner. 2016 Summer REU.
- Roman Blum. 2015-2016 research project.→ CS PhD student at Brown University
- Blakeley Hoffman. 2015 Summer REU and independent study Fall 2015. → CS Student at MIT
- Diqiu Zhou. 2015 research project.
Editorial Boards
- Associate Editor for Mathematics of Operations Research (MOR)
- Associate Editor for Operations Research Letters (ORL)
- Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2018-2023
Guest Editor
- Special Issue of Journal of Scheduling devoted to selected papers from the 2016 Seminar on New Challenges in Scheduling Theory Seminar
- Special Issue of Journal of Scheduling devoted to selected papers from the 2014 Seminar on New Challenges in Scheduling Theory Seminar
Program Committees Chair
MAPSP 2024
Program Committees
I will be or have been on the program committees for: APPROX 2026, SPAA 2026, STOC 2026, PODS 2026, SPAA 2025, ESA 2025, IPCO 2025 SPAA 2024, STACS 2023, WAOA 2023, ACDA 2023, NeurIPS Area Chair (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022,2021,2020), ICLR Area Chair (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022,2021,2020) ICML Area Chair (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022,2021), SPAA 2022, SODA 2022, ACDA 2022, WAOA 2021, SPAA 2021, SWAT 2020, Euro-Par 2020 (Global Chair), MAPSP 2019, AAAI 2018 , WSDM 2018, SODA 2018, KDD 2017 (Senior PC), ESA 2017, AISTATS 2017, IPDPS 2017, WSDM 2017, WAOA 2016, HiPC 2016, IPDPS 2016, SPAA 2016, MAPSP 2015, COCOON 2015, COCOON 2014, ISAAC 2013, WAOA 2013