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.
Research
summary + Publications
I am on leave Fall 2008 visiting GaTech.
Spring
08, 07, 06: CPS 130:
Algorithm Design
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:
Duke Algorithms Seminar
Algorithms Reading Group
Students:
Peng
Shi
(undergrad)
Jen
Burge
(M.S. '07)
Kshipra Bhawalkar (undergrad, '07)
Program Committees: ESA 07, APPROX 08, FSTTCS 08, ICDE 09, STOC '09
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
·
Talks
with Sri Ramana Maharshi
·
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