College of Computing

Distinguished Professor

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Santosh Vempala joined the College of Computing in the fall of 2006 as a professor in the Computing Science and Systems division. He recently spearheaded the Algorithms and Randomness Center and ThinkTank at Georgia Tech, and served as its first director from 2006 until 2011. Vempala's research interests include algorithms, randomness and geometry. He graduated from CMU in 1997 being advised by Avrim Blum and then went to MIT until 2006 except for a year as a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley.

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Professor, Joint with School of Mathematics

Director, Algorithms and Randomness Center and ThinkTank

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Prasad Tetali got his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Mathematical Sciences Center at AT&T Bell labs (Murray Hill, NJ), before joining Georgia Tech in 1994. He is a Professor in the School of Mathematics, with a joint appointment in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. As of April 2011, he is also the Director of Algorithms & Randomness Center and ThinkTank at Georgia Tech. He is a SIAM Fellow (2009) and has been the Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics since 2009.

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Assistant Professor

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Chris Peikert received his PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 2006, following undergraduate studies in CS and Mathematics (also at MIT).  His research interests include cryptography, computational complexity, and algorithms, especially in relation to lattices, error-correcting codes, geometry and number theory. Chris was most recently employed by the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International.

Computer Science Ph.D. Committee Member

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Associate Professor

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Dr. Leo Mark received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Aarhus University, Denmark. He was an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland from 1986-1992. He joined the College of Computing at Georgia Tech as an associate professor in 1992. He has taught a number of database courses and seminars at Aarhus University, The University of Maryland, and for private companies. Dr.

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Associate Professor

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Dr Prvulovic's research focuses on architectural (hardware) support for program monitoring, debugging, and security, particularly in multi-threaded and multi-core systems. In general, the goal of his research is to make both hardware and software more reliable and secure. He is the area coordinator for the Computer Architecture area in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Dr. Prvulovic received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003.

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Associate Professor

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Alessandro Orso is an associate professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (1995) and his Ph.D. in Computer Science (1999) from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. From March 2000, he has been at Georgia Tech, first as a research faculty and now as an associate professor. His area of research is software engineering, with emphasis on software testing and analysis.

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The overall goal of Dr. Harrold's research is to develop efficient techniques and tools that will automate, or partially automate, development, testing, and maintenance tasks. Her research to date has involved program analysis based software engineering, with an emphasis on regression testing, analysis and testing of imperative and object-oriented software, development of software tools, and investigation of the scalability issues of these techniques, through algorithm development and empirical evaluation.

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Sr. Research Scientist

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Ada Gavrilovska completed her Ph.D. in the Systems Research Group, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology, working under the direction of Dr. Karsten Schwan. Her interests include conducting experimental systems research, specifically addressing high-performance applications on distributed heterogeneous platforms, and focusing on topics that range from operating and distributed systems, to programmable network devices and active networking, to active and adaptive middleware. She has a B.S.

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Associate Professor

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Dr. Hyesoon Kim received her Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include high-performance energy-efficient computer architectures, programmer-compiler-architecture interaction, low-power high-performance embedded processors, and compiler and hardware support for dynamic optimizations, virtual machines, and binary instrumentation.

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Professor

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Jun (Jim) Xu is a Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research interests include data streaming algorithms for the measurement and monitoring of computer networks, and algorithms and data structures for high-speed routers. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2003, ACM Sigmetrics Best Student Paper Award in 2004, and IBM faculty awards in 2006 and 2008. He was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2010.

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