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Mohit Singh is the Coca-Cola Foundation Professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center (ARC) at Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. Prior to this position, Singh was a researcher in the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, and served as an assistant professor at McGill University from 2010 to 2011. His research revolves around discrete optimization, approximation algorithms, convex optimization, and their applications in cloud computing, logistics, and network design, with a particular interest in machine learning. Singh has received several accolades for his academic contributions, including the Tucker Prize in 2009 for his outstanding doctoral thesis in mathematical optimization, and a paper award for his work on the traveling salesman problem at the Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) in 2011.
Georgia Institute of Technology • Atlanta, GA
Leading the Algorithms and Randomness Center (ARC) and conducting research in optimization.
Microsoft Research • Redmond, WA
Contributed to the Theory Group focusing on optimization problems.
McGill University •
Conducted research and taught courses in industrial engineering.
Microsoft Research • New England
Focused on research in optimization and algorithms.
Department of Computer Science: GRE scores are optional for Fall 2026.