About the Authors
Adam R. Klivans
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1188
klivans[ta]cs[td]utexas[td]edu
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~klivans/
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1188
klivans[ta]cs[td]utexas[td]edu
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~klivans/
Adam R. Klivans received his B.S. and M.S. from
Carnegie-Mellon
University and his Ph.D. from
MIT, where Dan
Spielman was his advisor. He
then held an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral
Fellowship at
Harvard under the
guidance of
Leslie
Valiant.
After spending six months at the
Toyota Technological
Institute at Chicago
as a visiting professor, he became an assistant
professor at the
University of Texas
at Austin in the
Department of
Computer Science. He
is frequently confused with
Adam
Kalai.
Amir Shpilka
Department of Computer Science
The Technion
Haifa, 32000
Israel
shpilka[ta]cs[td]technion[td]ac[td]il
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~shpilka
Department of Computer Science
The Technion
Haifa, 32000
Israel
shpilka[ta]cs[td]technion[td]ac[td]il
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~shpilka
Amir Shpilka was born in 1972 in Israel and
obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the
Hebrew
University in Jerusalem in
2001, under the supervision of
Avi
Wigderson.
As of 2005 he is a CS faculty member at the
Technion.
He is married to Carmit and has two children.
His research interests lie in Complexity
Theory, mainly in Arithmetic Circuit Complexity. When
not working or
enjoying his family he likes to read and play chess.