computer science

Teaching

Algorithms and data structures, data compression methods, parallel algorithms and algorithmic issues in the World-Wide-Web. I'm currently teaching CO3096: Compression Methods for Multimedia and a MSc course on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (MSc home page). I supervise a number of third-year and MSc projects.

Research

Research Themes

I belong to the Algorithms and Complexity research group. In addition to studying algorithms from a mathematical viewpoint, I am actively involved in algorithm engineering, which includes:

• the implementation, experimental testing, and fine-tuning of discrete algorithms.
• the development of software repositories and platforms which allow use of, and experimentation with, efficient discrete algorithms.
• methodological issues including standards in the context of empirical research on algorithms and data structures.
• methodological issues regarding the process of converting user requirements into efficient algorithmic solutions and implementations.

Research Projects

• Algorithmic Aspects of Approximation Theory.
  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
  September 2006 - May 2007.
• e-Science PhD studentship for XML Grid technologies (with Dept of Physics and Astronomy).
  Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC)
  January 2004 - December 2006.
• NEMIS: Network of Excellence in text Mining and Statistics.
  EU IST Thematic Network (IST-2001-37574). August 2002 - August 2004.
• Highly-Efficient Data Structures
  UK-India Science and Technology Research Fund.
  March 2001 - August 2003, 6,800 pounds (jointly with IMSc, Chennai).
• New Paradigms in Data Structures: Word-level Parallelism and Self-Ad justment
  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
  September 1998 - May 2002.

Research Service

Journals

• Editor, Journal of Discrete Algorithms.
• Associate Managing Editor, Journal of Discrete Algorithms (2000-04).

Conferences

Current

• The 10th SIAM workshop on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics (ANALCO10), PC member.
• The 21st International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA), PC member.
• International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM), Steering Committee member.
• ACM-SIAM Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, Steering Committee member, 2006-.



Previous

• PC member of: The 5th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects of Information and Management (AAIM 2009); The 3rd International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop (FAW 2009); The Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2009); The 19th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2008); The 18th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA 2007); The 15th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2007), (Engineering & Applications Track); The 32nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2007); The The 3rd International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM'07); The 24th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2007); The thirteenth edition of the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2006); The 17th Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms; The 2nd International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM'06); The25th Annual Conference on the Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FST&TCS 2005); The 9th Biannual Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2005); The 16th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM '05); 4th International Workshop on Efficient and Experimental Algorithms (WEA 2005); The Third International Conference on FUN with Algorithms (FUN 2004); The 13th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2002); 4th ACM-SIAM Workshop on Algorithms and Experiments (ALENEX '02); The 10th Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (AWOCA '99); The 19th Annual Conference on the Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FST&TCS 1999).
• The Eighth ACM-SIAM Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX06), PC co-chair.
• European Symposium on Algorithms, Steering Committee member, 2001-04.
• 10th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2002), PC chair, Engineering and Applications Track.

Other

• Encyclopaedia of Algorithms, Area Editor.

Organisation

• Co-organiser, 19th British Colloqium on Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS '03), Leicester, 2003.
• Co-organizer, 3rd Workshop on Algorithm Engineering (WAE '99).
• Co-organiser, Advances in Data Structures, a satellite workshop of FSTTCS 1999, Chennai, 1999.

Brief Bio

Education

PhD (CS), University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 1993.
MS (CS), University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 1988.
BTech (CS and Engg), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi, India, 1986.
(Businessweek gushes about the Indian Institutes of Technology)

Jobs

After defending my PhD thesis in October 1991, I took up a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Algorithms and Complexity Group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, which is headed by Kurt Mehlhorn. In January 1993 I joined the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, as a Research Associate working with Uzi Vishkin. Crossing the Atlantic yet again, I joined the Algorithm Design Group at King's College London in 1994. I have been at Leicester since January 2001.

I've been a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut and at Hong Kong UST. I taught high school students at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.

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