Sriram Pemmaraju

Coordinates:
101 G McLean Hall, Department of Computer Science, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1419
319 353 2956 (voice), 319 335 3624 (fax)
sriram-pemmaraju@uiowa.edu

Office Hours:
1:30-2:30 M, 10:30-11:30 W, 2:00-3:00 F (and by appointment).

Research:
Broadly speaking, my research area is theoretical computer science. More specifically, my research interests are in distributed algorithms, randomization, approximation algorithms and combinatorial optimization, and combinatorics and graph theory. I am part of the Algorithms Research Group at Iowa. Recently, I have become interested in models and algorithms for social networks and am part of the Computational Epidemiology Group at Iowa.

Recent Publications:

• Near-Optimal Clustering in the k-machine model
  with Sayan Bandyapadhyay, Tanmay Inamdar and Shreyas Pai. 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, Jan 2018, Varanasi India. Full paper at arxiv.
• Symmetry Breaking in the Congest Model: Time- and Message-Efficient Algorithms for Ruling Sets
  with Shreyas Pai, Gopal Pandurangan, Talal Riaz, and Peter Robinson. Brief announcement in Thirty-sixth Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2017), July 2017 and paper in 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017), Oct 2017, Vienna, Austria. Full paper at arxiv.
• Super-fast MST Algorithms in the Congested Clique using o(m) Messages
  with Vivek Sardeshmukh. 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016), Dec 2016. Full paper at arxiv.
• Using Read-k Inequalities to Analyze a Distributed MIS Algorithm
  with Talal Riaz. Brief announcement in Thirty-fifth Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2016), July 2016 and paper in The 20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), Madrid, Spain, Dec 2016 Full paper at arxiv.

PhD Students:

• Current: James Hegeman, Talal Riaz, Shreyas Pai.
• Former Students: Vivek Sardeshmukh (2016, Cadence Design Systems, San Jose), Mauricio Monsalve (2015, Post-doc at CIGIDEN), Andrew Berns (2012, U of Northern Iowa), Donald Curtis (2011, Google), Saurav Pandit (2010, Authenticated Digital NYC), Imran Pirwani (2008, Apple Inc), Kevin Lillis (2008, St.Ambrose University), Rajiv Raman (2007, IIIT Delhi).

Current Teaching (spring 2018):

• Algorithms
• Computing Research Ethics

Here you can find course pages of classes I have taught since 2001.

Other Recent Activities:

• Talk at AGDA 2015.
• PC: SIRROCCO 2015, ICDCN 2016.
• I organize the departmental Speaker's Bureau.
• Fall 2015 Algorithms Reading Group.

And one more thing...
I am the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Computer Science. Visit the Graduate Programs pages to learn more about the graduate degrees (PhD and MCS) offered by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa.

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