Ashwin Lall

Ashwin Lall

Professor
Chair of Computer Science
Position Type
Faculty
Service
- Present
Biography

Ashwin Lall joined the 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### faculty in 2010. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech, a Ph.D. student and Sproull fellow at the University of Rochester, and a math/computer science double major at Colgate University. Dr. Lall has taught all the existing flavors of the introductory Computer Science course as well as advanced topics such as Theory of Computation and Design/Analysis of Algorithms. He also enjoys teaching the Game Design elective in the CS major.

Degree(s)
B.A., Colgate University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Rochester

Research

My research spans many different areas in computer science related to large data sets. Projects we could work on would involve answering questions about streaming algorithms for large data sets or query optimization in large databases.
Details

My research focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms for very large data sets. I have worked in a number of subfields of Computer Science, including computer networks, databases, social networks, distributed computing, and natural language processing/artificial intelligence. I am interested in doing summer research with students on query optimization. Interested students should drop by my office to discuss possible projects.

Works

Publications

Selected publications:

  • Towards Optimal Error-Estimating Codes through the Lens of Fisher Information Analysis, Nan Hua, Ashwin Lall, Baochun Li, and Jun Xu. In Proceedings of SIGMETRICS, London, UK, 2012.
  • Dense Subgraphs on Dynamic Networks, Atish Das Sarma, Ashwin Lall, Danupon Nanongkai, Amitabh Trehan. In Proceedings of DISC, Salvador, Brazil, 2012.
  • Regret-Minimizing Representative Databases, Danupon Nanongkai, Atish Das Sarma, Ashwin Lall, Richard J. Lipton, and Jim Xu. In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Databases, Singapore, 2010.
  • Streaming Pointwise Mutual Information, Benjamin Van Durme and Ashwin Lall. In Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2009.
  • Data Streaming Algorithms for Estimating Entropy of Network Traffic, Ashwin Lall, Vyas Sekar, Mitsunori Ogihara, Jun Xu, and Hui Zhang. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2006/IFIP Performance, Saint Malo, France, 2006.

Other

Student Collaborations

Selected student research projects:

  • Yuting Chen, Edward Takahashi. Sketch-guided sampling for measuring network traffic statistics. In proceedings of MCURCSM 2012.
  • Edward Takahashi, Yuting Chen. Divergence in network traffic. In proceedings of MCURCSM 2012.

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