I’m an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Wellesley College. My research is on algorithms and theory with applications in e-commerce, fairness in machine learning, democratic systems, mechanism design for social good, and bioinformatics. I did my PhD in computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park with co-advisors Aravind Srinivasan and Mihai Pop. My broad research interests are summarized below with more detailed information on my research page.
Hello Wellesley students!
If you have questions about a course I'm teaching or interest in a research project related to my research (or the broad area of algorithms), please feel free to email me anytime. It's never too early to start thinking about a potential future research project.
Research Interests
Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science
- Approximation, randomized, and online algorithms
- Combinatorial and stochastic optimization
Computational social choice
- Redistricting and gerrymandering regulation
- Emerging democratic systems, e-democracy, and liquid democracy
Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT)
- Fair clustering
- FAccT for democratic systems
E-commerce
- Models and algorithms for online matching, advertising, and ride-hailing platforms
Bioinformatics
- String algorithms and string comparison
- Taxonomic sequence clustering
Professional service
- Program Committee for AAAI-20, ICML 2020, NeurIPS 2020, AAAI 2021, NeurIPS 2021, NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks 2021, WWW 2022, and NeurIPS 2022.
- Senior Program Committee for IJCAI 2021 and IJCAI 2022.
- Area Chair for FAccT 2022.
- Other reviews for FOCS, EAAMO, ESA, CPM, Networks, SODA, TALG, WAOA, and WABI.
Website last updated: 7-5-22