Associate Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Research Interests:
Compressed Sensing, Data Stream Algorithms and Lower Bounds, Dimensionality Reduction, Distributed Computation, Machine Learning, Numerical Linear Algebra, Optimization
Professional Experience:
August 2018-present, Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department Associate Professor (with tenure)
August 2017-present, Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department Associate Professor
June 2018–December 2018, Google, Mountain View Research Division Visiting Faculty Program
August 2007-August 2017, IBM Almaden Research Center Principles and Methodologies Group Research Scientis
Awards:
· Simons Investigator Award, 2020-present
· PODS 2020 Best Paper Award for the paper “A Framework for Adversarially Robust Streaming Algorithms (coauthors Omri Ben-Eliezer, Rajesh Jayaram, and Eylon Yogev) Paper invited to the Journal of the ACM
· Google Faculty Award, 2018
· Winner of EATCS Presburger Prize
· Researcher of IBM Almaden theory group
· Winner of the Best Paper Award on STOC 2013 and the Best Paper Award on PODS 2010.
Professional Activities:
· Program Chair for 2018 Program on Foundations of Data Science at the Simons Institute at UC Berkeley
· Carnegie Mellon University PhD Admissions Chair, 2021
Personal Homepage: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dwoodruf/