About the Authors
Anupam Gupta
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
anupamg[ta]cs[td]cmu[td]edu
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~anupamg
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
anupamg[ta]cs[td]cmu[td]edu
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~anupamg
Anupam Gupta is a faculty member at
Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh PA. He grew up in Calcutta, India, went to the
Indian Institute of Technology at
Kanpur for his B.Tech. degree, and received his Ph.D. from
the University of California at Berkeley under the guidance of
Alistair Sinclair.
He also spent two years searching for good and unknown restaurants
in New York while he was ostensibly a postdoctoral researcher at
Lucent
Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. Anupam's interests include
approximation algorithms, metric embeddings, networking, eating,
and playing squash badly.
Aravind Srinivasan
Department of Computer Science and University of
Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD 20742, USA
srin[ta]cs[td]umd[td]edu
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~srin
Department of Computer Science and University of
Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD 20742, USA
srin[ta]cs[td]umd[td]edu
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~srin
Aravind Srinivasan is a faculty member at the
University of Maryland,
College Park. He received his Ph.D. degree from
Cornell University
under the supervision of
David Shmoys,
and his undergraduate degree from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
His research interests are in randomized algorithms,
networking, social networks, combinatorial optimization, and related
areas. Aravind is a native of Chennai, India, and his "mother
tongue" (native language) is Tamil.