About the Authors
Subhash Khot
Department of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
khot[ta]cs[td]nyu[td]edu
http://cs.nyu.edu/~khot
Department of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
khot[ta]cs[td]nyu[td]edu
http://cs.nyu.edu/~khot
Subhash Khot is an Associate Professor in the
Computer Science Department at
New York University,
part of the
Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences. He completed his Ph.D. in the summer of
2003 at the
Princeton CS Department under the
supervision of Sanjeev Arora. He stayed in Princeton
for another year as a member of the School of Mathematics
at IAS. He has been an Assistant
Professor at the College
of Computing at Georgia Tech since the fall of 2004, currently on leave.
Ryan O'Donnell
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
odonnell[ta]cs[td]cmu[td]edu
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
odonnell[ta]cs[td]cmu[td]edu
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell
Ryan O'Donnell received a B.Sc. from the
University of Toronto in 1999
and a Ph.D. from the
MIT Mathematics Department
in 2003. His Ph.D.
advisor was Madhu Sudan. Following this he was a
postdoc at IAS for a year in
Avi Wigderson's group, and a postdoc at
Microsoft Research
for two years in Jennifer Chayes's group. Since 2006 he has been an
assistant professor in the
Computer Science Department
at Carnegie Mellon University. Ryan's research
interests include Analysis of Boolean Functions,
Hardness of Approximation, Learning Theory, and
Probability. He enjoys his spare time.