About the Authors
Jack Murtagh
Jack Murtagh
School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA USA
murtagh.jack[ta]g[td]harvard[td]edu
https://scholar.harvard.edu/jmurtagh/home
Jack Murtagh got his Ph.D. in May 2020 from Harvard University where he was advised by Salil Vadhan. As an undergraduate, he studied math at Tufts University. Jack wrote his dissertation on spectral graph-theoretic methods for derandomizing space-bounded computation.
Omer Reingold
Omer Reingold
Professor
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA USA
reingold[ta]stanford[td]edu
https://engineering.stanford.edu/people/omer-reingold
Omer Reingold is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University. His research is in the foundations of computer science and most notably in computational complexity, cryptography, and the societal impact of computation. Omer completed his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute under the supervision of Moni Naor.
Aaron Sidford
Aaron Sidford
Assistant professor
Management Science & Engineering
and Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford, CA USA
sidford[ta]stanford[td]edu
www.aaronsidford.com
Aaron Sidford is an assistant professor in Management Science and Engineering and in Computer Science at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was advised by Jonathan Kelner. Aaron's research interests lie broadly in optimization, the theory of computation, and the design and analysis of algorithms. He is particularly interested in work at the intersection of continuous optimization, graph theory, numerical linear algebra, and data structures.
Salil Vadhan
Salil Vadhan
Professor
School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA USA
salil_vadhan[ta]harvard[td]edu
salil.seas.harvard.edu
Salil Vadhan is the Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. He received his Ph.D. under the supervision of Shafi Goldwasser at MIT in 1999; the title of his dissertation was “A Study of Statistical Zero-Knowledge Proofs.” Other research interests include the theory of pseudorandomness the theory and practice of data privacy. He enjoys spending leisure time with his wife and two daughters, as well as learning to surf in the cold waters of New England.