Dr. Santosh Vempala

Biography

Santosh Vempala is the Frederick G. Storey Chair Computing Professor and Director of the Algorithms and Computation Optimization PhD program in the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has also held courtesy appointments in the Schools of Mathematics and Industrial Systems Engineering. Vempala served as the founding director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center from 2006 to 2011. His research interests focus on algorithms, randomness, high-dimensional geometry, and brain computing for good. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997 and advised Avrim Blum, who is a faculty member at MIT. Vempala has received numerous accolades, including being recognized as a Sloan Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, ACM Fellow, and AMS Fellow. He has a keen interest in understanding the limits of sampling and optimization algorithms and is building a computational theory around brain computing.

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