Moses Charikar

Moses Samson Charikar is an Indian computer scientist who works as a professor at Stanford University. He was previously a professor at Princeton University. The topics of his research include approximation algorithms, streaming algorithms, and metric embeddings.

Charikar was born in Bombay, India,[1] and competed for India at the 1990 and 1991 International Mathematical Olympiads, winning bronze and silver medals respectively.[2] He did his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.[1] In 2000 he completed a doctorate from Stanford University, under the supervision of Rajeev Motwani;[3] he joined the Princeton faculty in 2001.[1]

In 2012 he was awarded the Paris Kanellakis Award along with Andrei Broder and Piotr Indyk for their research on locality-sensitive hashing.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Moses Charikar". Princeton University. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Moses Samson Charikar". International Mathematical Olympiad. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  3. ↑ Moses Charikar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ "Moses S Charikar, ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, United States – 2012". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved December 24, 2013.

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