About the Authors
Chandra Chekuri
Dept. of Computer Science
201 N. Goodwin Ave.
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
chekuri[ta]cs[td]uiuc[td]edu
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/chekuri
Dept. of Computer Science
201 N. Goodwin Ave.
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
chekuri[ta]cs[td]uiuc[td]edu
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/chekuri
Chandra Chekuri is an Associate Professor of
Computer Science at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He moved to UIUC in
the fall of 2006 after spending eight
years at Lucent Bell Labs. He finished his Ph.D. in
Computer Science at Stanford University under the
supervision of Rajeev Motwani in 1998. Before that he obtained his
B. Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras (now Chennai). He is primarily
interested in algorithms for discrete optimization problems with
current research focusing on approximation algorithms.
Martin Pál
Google Inc.
76 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
mpal[ta]google[td]com
http://martin.palenica.com
Google Inc.
76 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
mpal[ta]google[td]com
http://martin.palenica.com
Martin Pál is a Software Engineer at
Google, Inc., where he enjoys designing algorithms for internet
advertising markets. Before joining the company that does no
evil, he spent four lovely years at Cornell University pursuing a Ph.D. in
Computer Science under the supervision of Éva
Tardos, followed by a year as a postdoc at DIMACS and Bell Labs.