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Affiliated ACO Faculty

The combined faculties in Computing, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Mathematics at Georgia Tech number nearly 150 in all. A list of Tech's faculty affiliated with the ACO program follows:

College of Computing Alexandra Boldyreva Yan Zong Ding Nick Feamster Merrick Furst Adam Kalai Yael Kalai Subhash Khot Richard J. Lipton Milena Mihail Dana Randall Vijay V. Vazirani Santosh Vempala H. Venkateswaran Juan Vera Eric Vigoda Nisheeth Vishnoi

School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Shabbir Ahmed Earl R. Barnes William Cook Ozlem Ergun Ellis L. Johnson Pinar Keskinocak Eva Lee² Renato D.C. Monteiro George L. Nemhauser Arkadi Nemirovski R. Gary Parker Martin W.P. Savelsbergh Alexander Shapiro Joel Sokol Craig A. Tovey¹ John H. Vande Vate

School of Mathematics Matthew Baker Saugata Basu¹ Leonid A. Bunimovich Mihai A. Ciucu Ernest Croot Richard A. Duke Christine Heitsch Thomas D. Morley Serguei Norine Sang-il Oum Prasad Tetali¹ Robin Thomas William T. Trotter Yang Wang Xingxing Yu

Shabbir Ahmed (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000) Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Stochastic programming and computational optimization.

Earl R. Barnes (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1968) Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Mathematical programming, interior point methods for linear programming.

Matthew Baker (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1999) Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry.

Alexandra Boldyreva Assistant Professor of Computing.

Leonid A. Bunimovich (Ph.D., Moscow University, Academy of Science, USSR, Kiev) Regents' Professor of Mathematics.
Dynamical systems and mathematical physics, ergodic theory.

Mihai A. Ciucu (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996) Associate Professor of Mathematics.
Algebraic combinatorics, enumeration of matchings, tilings, statistical physics.

William Cook (Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 1983) Russ and Sammie Chandler Chair and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Combinatorial optimization.

Ernest Croot (Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2000) Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Yan Zong Ding (Ph.D., Harvard University) Assistant Professor of Computing.
Cryptography, randomness in computation.

Richard A. Duke (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1965) Professor of Mathematics.
Combinatorics, graph theory.

Ozlem Ergun (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001) Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Logistics, optimization.

Nick Feamster (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005) Assistant Professor of College of Computing.
Networked computer systems.

Merrick Furst Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor of College of Computing.

Christine Heitsch (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2000) Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Discrete mathematical biology.

Ellis L. Johnson (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1965) Coca Cola Chair and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Mathematical programming, combinatorial optimization.

Adam Kalai (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2001) Assistant Professor of Computing.
Machine learning, game theory, and randomized/online algorithms.

Yael Kalai (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006) Assistant Professor of Computing.
Information security and cryptography.

Subhash Khot (Ph.D., Princeton University, 2003) Assistant Professor of Computing.
Complexity theory, PCPs and hardness of algorithms, lower bounds.

Pinar Keskinocak (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1997) Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Operations research, approximation algorithms, scheduling and routing.

Eva Lee (Ph.D., Rice University, 1993) Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Combinatorial optimization, operations research, medicine. (Jointly appointed with Emory University School of Medicine.)

Richard J. Lipton (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University) Professor and Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing. Algorithms and Complexity, DNA Computing.

Milena Mihail (Ph.D, Harvard University) Associate Professor of Computing.
Theory of Algorithms, Applied Probability, Large Scale Networks, Large Scale Data.

Renato D.C. Monteiro (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1988) Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Mathematical programming: linear and nonlinear optimization, interior point methods.

Thomas D. Morley (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1976) Professor of Mathematics.
Operator theory, circuits, systems.

George L. Nemhauser (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1961) A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Integer programming, combinatorial optimization, operations research.

Arkadi Nemirovski (Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1974; D.Sc. Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1990) Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Convex Programming, Interior Point Methods, Complexity, Numerical Analysis.

Serguei Norine (Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2005) Post Doc of Mathematics.

Sang-il Oum (Ph.D., Princeton University, 2005) Post Doc of Mathematics.

R. Gary Parker (Ph.D., Kansas State University, 1972) Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Combinatorial optimization, complexity theory, scheduling theory.

Dana Randall (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1994) Associate Professor of Computing.
Computational physics, randomized algorithms, combinatorics, stochastic processes, statistical mechanics, simulations of physical systems.

Martin W.P. Savelsbergh (Ph.D., Erasmus University, 1988) Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Mathematical programming, combinatorial optimization, parallel computation.

Alexander Shapiro (Ph.D., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, 1981) Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Statistics, stochastic systems and optimization

Joel Sokol (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999) Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Combinatorial optimizaton, operations research.

Prasad Tetali (Ph.D., New York University, 1991) Professor of Mathematics and of Computing.
Combinatorics, probabilistic methods, algorithms and complexity theory.

Robin Thomas (Doctor of Natural Sciences, Charles University, 1985) Professor of Mathematics.
Combinatorics, graph theory, algorithms.

Craig A. Tovey (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1981) Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and of Computing.
Design and analysis of heuristics, combinatorial optimization, mathematical socio-biology.

William T. Trotter (Ph.D., University of Alabama, 1969) Professor of Mathematics.
Combinatorics, graph theory.

John H. Vande Vate (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985) Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, matroid theory.

Vijay V. Vazirani (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1983) Professor of Computing.
Design and analysis of algorithms (approximation algorithms, algorithmic problems in coding theory), computational complexity theory.

Santosh Vempala (Ph.D.) Professor of Computing.
Computer science and systems

H. Venkateswaran (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1986) Associate Professor of Computing.
Computational complexity, parallel computation.

Juan Vera Post-Doc of Computing

Eric Vigoda (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1999) Associate Professor of Computing.
Randomized algorithms, stochastic processes, statistical physics

Nisheeth Vishnoi Postdoctoral Fellow of Computing

Yang Wang (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1990) Professor of Mathematics.
Tilings, number theory, computer vision, wavelets, randomized algorithms.

Xingxing Yu (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1990) Professor of Mathematics.
Graph theory, graph algorithms, combinatorics.

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