Dr. Benjamin Rossman

Associate Professor

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Biography

Benjamin Rossman is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Duke University, located in the Levine Science Research Center. His research focuses on understanding the structural properties of combinatorial problems and their influence on computational descriptive complexity. He has achieved significant results, including the establishment of unconditional lower bounds for circuit models and exploring problems such as subgraph isomorphism and clique connectivity in random graphs. Prior to his current position, Rossman held a faculty position at the University of Toronto and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Informatics in Japan. He completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Madhu Sudan. Rossman is also actively involved in teaching and mentoring students in courses related to computational complexity and mathematical logic, and he is open to inquiries from prospective PhD students.

Research Interests

Courses

CompSci 335: Computational Complexity Math/CompSci 487: Introduction to Mathematical Logic CompSci 334: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science CompSci/Math 590: Circuit Complexity CompSci 390: Computational Complexity CompSci/Math 590: Analysis of Boolean Functions CompSci 230: Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science MAT 309: Introduction to Mathematical Logic CSC 463: Computational Complexity and Computability CSC 2429: Topics in the Theory of Computation

Requirements for Duke University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.2
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Multivariable Calculus Introduction to Physics (mechanics) Introduction to Chemistry
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Specialization Notes

Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)