Theory

Carnegie Mellon University has a strong and diverse group in Algorithms and Complexity Theory. The goals of the group are, broadly speaking, to provide a mathematical understanding of fundamental issues in Computer Science, and to use this understanding to produce better algorithms, protocols, and systems, as well as identify the inherent limitations of efficient computation. Research interests include data structures, algorithm design, complexity theory, coding theory, parallel algorithms and languages, machine learning theory, cryptography and security, computational aspects of economics, online algorithms, and scientific computing.

http://theory.cs.cmu.edu

Faculty working in this area:

Last	First	Title	Email
Acar	Umut	Associate Professor	umut@cs.cmu.edu
Balcan	Nina	Professor	ninamf@cs.cmu.edu
Beckmann	Nathan	Assistant Professor	beckmann@cs.cmu.edu
Blelloch	Guy	Professor	guyb@cs.cmu.edu
Blum	Manuel	University Professor, Emeritus	mblum@cs.cmu.edu
Goyal	Vipul	Associate Professor	goyal@cs.cmu.edu
Gupta	Anupam	Professor	anupamg@cs.cmu.edu
Guruswami	Venkatesan	Director of Doctoral Programs, Professor	venkatg@cs.cmu.edu
Haeupler	Bernhard	Associate Professor	haeupler@cs.cmu.edu
Harchol-Balter	Mor	Professor	harchol@cs.cmu.edu
O'Donnell	Ryan	Professor	odonnell@cs.cmu.edu
Rudich	Steven	Professor	rudich@cs.cmu.edu
Sandholm	Tuomas	Angel Jordan University Professor of Computer Science	sandholm@cs.cmu.edu
Schwartz	Russell	Professor	russells@andrew.cmu.edu
Shah	Nihar	Assistant Professor	nihars@cs.cmu.edu
Shi	Elaine	Associate Professor	rshi@andrew.cmu.edu
Sleator	Daniel	Professor	sleator@cs.cmu.edu
Vinayak	Rashmi Korlakai	Assistant Professor	rvinayak@andrew.cmu.edu
von Ahn	Luis	Consulting Professor	biglou@cs.cmu.edu
Wang	Weina	Assistant Professor	weinaw@andrew.cmu.edu
Woodruff	David	Associate Professor	dwoodruf@cs.cmu.edu
Xing	Eric P.	Professor	epxing@cs.cmu.edu