Group

I have the great pleasure of advising the following students!

PhD Students

• Willem (Will) Fletcher (2023-)

• Richard Huang (2023-)

If You’re Not a Brown Student and Want to Do Research with Me

I’m not currently accepting new students (PhD or otherwise). I’ll try to respond to your email if it shows that you’ve meaningfuly looked at some of my papers but I don’t have the time to respond to generic emails of interest.

If You Are a Brown Student and Want to Do Research with Me

If you’re already a student at Brown and are interested in doing research with me I’m happy to chat! Please read the below.

I can’t promise research opportunities but if I have some problems that fit your background I’d be excited to talk. Some things that would give you useful background to do research with me are:

• CSCI1570: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• CSCI 1450: Advanced Introduction to Probability for Computing and Data Science or CSCI1550: Probabilistic Methods in Computer Science
• CSCI1952C: Frontiers of Graph Algorithms (my seminar)
• Math 1230: Graph Theory
• Any upper-level classes offered by Yu Cheng, Eli Upfal or Philip Klein
• Attending Brown Theory Seminar

No one of the above is strictly necessary to do research with me (though ideally you have taken at least 1570 (or equivalent) and at least one upper-level theory class. At a minimum, you should be mathematically mature and have familiarity with proof-based analysis of algorithms.

If you feel you have the right background to do research with me please send me an email with:

• Your Brown transcript;
• A CV if you have one;
• Your availability for the subsequent 2 weeks;
• Any other information you think I should know.

I’ll pick a time for a 30 minute meeting to chat further.

If you aren’t sure if you have the right background please feel free to reach out anyway and we can discuss if working together makes sense!