Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table Incoming Ph.D. Student Andrew Krapavin Solves Classic Problem with collaborators CSD Assistant Professor William Kuzmaul, and Martín Farach-Colton, faculty at NYU Sunday, March 16, 2025 Krapivin on the King’s College Bridge at the University of Cambridge. His new hash table can find and store data faster than researchers ever thought possible. Photoraph: Phillip Ammon for Quanta Magazine