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###### Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing and Professor, Director of ACO PhD program

vempala@cc.gatech.edu

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vempala/

Research Areas: Theory of algorithms, Foundations of Data Science, Theory of Brain, Computing for Good (C4G)

## Biography

Santosh Vempala is Frederick Storey II Chair of Computing and Distinguished Professor in the School of Computer Science, with courtesy appointments in the schools of Mathematics and Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE). He served as the founding director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center and ThinkTank (2006-2011), and is currently the director of GT's oldest interdisciplinary PhD program --- Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization. His research interests include algorithms, randomness, high-dimensional geometry, brain and computing-for-good (C4G). He graduated from CMU in 1997 advised by Avrim Blum and was on the MIT faculty until 2007 except for a year as a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley. Vempala is also a Sloan, Guggenheim, ACM, AMS and generally excitable Fellow, especially when a phenomenon that appears complex from one perspective turns out to be simple from another. In recent years, he has been trying to understand the limits of sampling and optimization algorithms and building a computational theory of brain.

## Affiliations

School of Computer Science
Algorithms and Randomness Center (ARC)
Machine Learning (ML@GT)
Online Master of Science Computer Science (OMSCS)