Group

PhD Students

I have the great pleasure of advising the following students!

• Willem (Will) Fletcher (2023-)

• Richard Z Huang (2023-)

Undergrads

• Manas Korimilli

Visitors

I’ve also had the great pleasure of hosting the following people (person).

• Kishen Gowda (Summer 2024)

Alums

• Luke Choi (Fall 2024); UTRA
• Mohammad Hijaz (Fall 2024); UTRA
• Derek Yang (Fall 2024)
• Kenneth Zhang (Fall 2024)

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

If you’re interested in becoming a PhD student please consider applying to our program and list me as a faculty of interest!

I’ll try to respond to your email if it shows that you’ve meaningfully 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! I can’t promise research opportunities but if I have some problems that fit your background I’d be excited to talk. Please read the below.

If you would like to do research with me I ask that you do two things:

• Take and do well in my class: CSCI2952T: An Algorithmist’s Toolkit (my non-seminar advanced class);
• Attend Algorithms Lunch for at least 1 semester.

Some additional 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

If you have the right background to do research with me, please book a slot here to chat in CIT 507 and before we meet send me an email with:

• Your Brown transcript;
• A CV or resume if you have one;
• Any other information you think I should know.

If you aren’t able to make any of the bookable times above, then please also send me your availability for the subsequent 2 weeks and I’ll pick a time.