About the Authors
Moses Charikar
Dept. Computer Science
Princeton University
35 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
moses[ta]cs[td]princeton[td]edu
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~moses
Dept. Computer Science
Princeton University
35 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
moses[ta]cs[td]princeton[td]edu
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~moses
Moses Charikar is an Assistant Professor in the
Computer Science department at
Princeton University.
He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from
Stanford University
under the supervision of
Rajeev Motwani.
Before that, he obtained his undergraduate degree
from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
His research interests are in approximation algorithms,
metric embeddings and algorithmic techniques for
large data sets.
His work on dimension reduction in l1
won the best paper award at FOCS 2003.
A one year stint in the research group
at Google
gave him an opportunity to apply his theoretical ideas
in the real world.
He still reaps the benefits of that experience
-- he has successfully managed to retain the top spot
for a Google search on his last name, but has wisely
given up trying to compete with his well-known
namesake for searches on his first name.
Robert Krauthgamer
IBM Almaden Research Center
Department K53/B2
650 Harry Road
San Jose, CA 95120, USA
robi[ta]almaden[td]ibm[td]com
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/robi
IBM Almaden Research Center
Department K53/B2
650 Harry Road
San Jose, CA 95120, USA
robi[ta]almaden[td]ibm[td]com
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/robi
Robert Krauthgamer is a Research Staff Member in the
theory group
at the IBM Almaden Research Center
in San Jose, CA.
He received his Ph. D.
in 2001 from the Weizmann Institute
of Science in Israel. A paper, coauthored (as part of his thesis)
with his advisor,
Uri Feige,
was awarded the 2005 SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize.
Subsequently he spent two years as a postdoc in the
theory
group at Berkeley.
His research interests include combinatorial algorithms,
finite metric spaces, high-dimensional geometry, data analysis,
and related areas.
His favorite sport since youth has been swimming;
once he swam across the
Sea of Galilee
in a 10km competitive race,
and was the last one to arrive at the finish line.