UW-Madison
Computer Sciences Dept.

Theory Group

Faculty:

Eric Bach
Computational number theory and algebra, analysis of randomized and quantum algorithms, cryptography.

Jin-Yi Cai
Complexity theory: structural, nonuniform models, worst-case vs average-case, lattice problems.

Shuchi Chawla

Shuchi Chawla
Algorithms for combinatorial optimization, hardness of approximation, game theory, privacy, machine learning theory.

Deborah Joseph
Computational biology, complexity theory.

Dieter van Melkebeek
Complexity theory: lower bounds for NP-complete problems, pseudorandomness and derandomization, quantum computing.




Students:

Matthew Anderson
Siddharth Barman
Scott Diehl
Jeff Kinne
Michael Kowalczyk
Mark Liu
Chi Man Liu
David Malec
Adeel Pervez
Priyananda Shenoy
Seeun Umboh
Dalibor Zelený



Recent PhD's:

Venkat Chakravarthy (IBM Research, New Delhi)
Denis Charles (Microsoft Research, Redmond)

 
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