I am a Victor E. Cameron Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Rice University and a Visiting Researcher at Google.

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Research Interests:

My current research interests include algorithms, machine learning, digital health, and computer networks. In the past, I worked on cosmological simulations.

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Service:

• Program Committee: Area Chair for NeurIPS 2021, 2022, 2023, ICML 2023, INFOCOM 2024, ICDT 2024, SIGMETRICS 2023, 2022, APOCS 2022, ICDT 2021, ICALP 2020, SOSA 2020, PODS 2020, CSR 2019, LATIN 2018, SODA 2018 , FOCS 2017, MASSIVE 2016, COCOON 2015
• Associate Editor for Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS)
• Co-organizer of NSF workshop on programmable networks, NYC, 2018
• Co-organizer of Joint PI Meeting: NSF BIGDATA and Big Data Hubs and Spokes, 2018
• Co-organizer of Capital Theory Day, Baltimore, MD, 2016
• Co-organizer of Sublinear Algorithms Workshop, Baltimore, MD, 2016
• Co-organizer of Processing Big Data Streams, Shonan Village Center, Japan, 2017

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Funding:

• My research has been supported in part by NSF, ONR, Google , DARPA , Cisco , Nvidia , IDIES , KIAT(Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology)

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Additional and Past Affiliations:

• Ken Kennedy Institute
• Network Programming Initiative
• Department of Computer Science at JHU
• The Johns Hopkins Mathematical Institute for Data Science (MINDS)
• The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES)
• Researcher at HyperRoll (acquired by Oracle.)

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Open Positions:

I am looking for outstanding students and postdocs who are interested to work on algorithmic challenges of modern machine and deep learning. If you are interested, please send me an email.

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