Chandra Chekuri
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Contact Information
- 3228
- “lastname”@cs.uiuc.edu
- 217-265-0705 (office), 217-265-4035 (fax)
- Support staff: Elaine Wilson (ewilson
at uiuc dot edu), 3229
Past Connections
- Sept 1998 – June 2006: Member of Technical Staff (MTS), Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies.
- Sept 1993 - August 1998: PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department of Stanford University. Home page of the Theory Group.
- June 1989 - June 1993: B.Tech in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras .
Research Interests and Publications
- theoretical computer science
- design and analysis of algorithms
- discrete and combinatorial optimization
- approximation algorithms
- algorithmic applications
Most of my papers are available online here. Please put yours on the web!
Teaching
- Spring 2008: CS573 Topics in Algorithms - Algorithmic Game Theory
- Fall 2007: CS473UG Undergraduate Algorithms
- Spring 2007: CS273 Intro to Theory of Computation
- Fall 2006: CS598CC Approximation Algorithms
Students
- Nitish Korula : advisee
- Sungjin Im: independent study
- Ben Moseley: independent study
- Past summer interns at Bell Labs: Rajat Bhattacharjee, Amit Chakrabarti, Marcelo Mydlarz (along with Bruce Shepherd), An Zhu
Professional Activities
Program committees:
Current and future:
NetCod 2009
Past: ITW 2008, FAW 2008, ISAAC 2007, STOC 2007, APPROX 2007, APPROX 2005 (Chair), FSTTCS 2004, APPROX 2004, FOCS 2003, APPROX 2003.
Journals:
Area Editor: Springer Encyclopedia on Algorithms.
Associate Editor: Journal of Computer System
Sciences (JCSS). Nov 2005 -- .
Guest co-editor for Algorithmica special issue
on selected papers from APPROX/RANDOM 2005 - completed.
Guest co-editor for JCSS special issue on
selected papers from FOCS 2003 - completed
