Kamesh
Munagala
Assistant
Professor of Computer Science,
Duke University.
My main research
interest is the
design and analysis of algorithms for combinatorial and stochastic
optimization problems.
Teaching:
Fall 07, 06: CPS230: Advanced Algorithms
Fall 05: CPS 260: Algorithms for Computational Biology
Spring 05: CPS 240: Computational Complexity
Fall 04: CPS 232: Approximation Algorithms
Spring 02: EO 325: Topics in Algorithms (CSA Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Academic:
Reading Group Meetings: Fall '08 Fall '07
Students:
Jen Burge (M.S. '07)
Kshipra Bhawalkar (undergrad, '07)
Funding: I gratefully acknowledge support from NSF (including a CAREER award).
History:
2003 - 04: Post-doc at Pat
Brown's Lab in the Department
of Biochemistry, Stanford
University School of Medicine (mainly analyzing microarray data)
1998 - 03: PhD student at the theory of
computation group in the Computer
Science Department,
Stanford. My
advisor was
Prof. Serge Plotkin.
1994 - 98: Undergraduate at the CSE Department IIT
Bombay. My thesis advisor was Dr. Abhiram Ranade.
Genealogy:
My great-grandfather,
Munagala S. Venkataramaiah , wrote/translated
books on Hindu "Advaita"
philosophy. He lived in Tiruvannamalai
(Tamil Nadu), and was a disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.
Talks
with Sri Ramana Maharshi (available in PDF)
Tripura
Rahasya (Translated from
Sanskrit;
full-text available online)
Non-academic:
Flickr's Photos of the Day
Calvin and Hobbes
Poetry: The Wondering Minstrels
LaTeX Math Symbol Quick Reference
Contact
Information:
D205,
Levine Science Research Center,
Research Drive,
Duke University, Durham NC 27708.
Phone: 919-660-6598.
Email
address: <first_name> @cs.duke.edu