ACO PROGRAM FACULTY

ACO Program Faculty are appointed by the ACO Coordinating Committee, and such appointments are normally renewed annually. ACO Program Faculty take an active role in running the program. This includes, but is not limited to, teaching core and advanced ACO courses, developing new courses, supervising students, and serving on ACO Committees. ACO Program Faculty may be drawn from any Georgia Tech unit, and, when justified, may come from outside of Georgia Tech. Any ACO Program Faculty may serve as a dissertation advisor of any ACO student regardless of departmental affiliation.

Currently, the following faculty members serve as ACO Program Faculty:

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

David Bader (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1996) Professor of Computing.
Parallel algorithms, combinatorial optimization, computational biology, and genomics.

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

Nina Balcan (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University Berkeley, 2008) Assistant Professor of School of Computer Science.
Computational and statistical machine learning, computational aspects in economics and game theory, and algorithms, mathematical models for signal processing and computer vision.

Alexandra Boldyreva (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2004) Assistant Professor of Computing.
Cryptography and information security.

Leonid A. Bunimovich (Ph.D., Moscow University, 1974; Dr. Sci., Academy of Science, USSR, Kiev, 1986) Regents' Professor of Mathematics.
Dynamical systems and mathematical physics, ergodic theory.

Ton Dieker (Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, 2006) Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Combinatorics, fluid and diffusion approximations, Gaussian processes and fractional Brownian motion, heavy tails, large deviations, Levy processes, queueing models, rare event simulation.

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.

Santanu Dey (Ph.D.) Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

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 Computing.
Networked computer systems.

Merrick Furst (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1980) Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing.
Theory, computing venture creation, algorithms, and AI planning.

Alex Gray (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2003) Assistant Professor of Computing .
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, data mining, computational mathematics for massive datasets, challenge applications.

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.

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, 1973) Professor and Frederick G. Storey Chair in College of Computing.
Algorithms and complexity, DNA computing.

Milena Mihail (Ph.D, Harvard University, 1989) 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.

Haesun Park (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987) Professor of Computing.
Pattern analysis, numerical algorithms, data mining, scientific computing, bioinformatics, information retrieval, parallel computing.

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

Chris Peikert (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006) Assistant Professor of School of Computer Science.
Cryptography, lattices, coding theory, algorithms, and computational complexity

Prasad Raghavendra (Ph.D., University of Washington, 2009) Assistant Professor of Computing.
Approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, complexity, coding 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.

Asaf Shapira (Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2006) Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Algorithms, combinatorics and optimization.

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., Carnegie Mellon University, 1997) Professor of Computing.
Computer science and systems.

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

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

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

Hongyuan Zha (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993) Professor of Computing.
Machine learning applications and Web search.

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