Kamesh's PicKamesh 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.

Teaching:

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
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Email address: <first_name> @cs.duke.edu