Chandra Chekuri

Associate Professor

Contact Information

3228 Siebel Center, 201 N. Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
“lastname”@cs.illinois.edu
217-265-0705 (office), 217-265-4035 (fax)
Support staff: Elaine Wilson (ewilson at uiuc dot edu), 3229 Siebel Center.

Past Connections

Sept 1998 – June 2006: Member of Technical Staff (MTS), Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies.
Sept 1993 - August 1998: PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department of Stanford University. Home page of the Theory Group.
June 1989 - June 1993: B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras .

Teaching

Spring 2010: CS598CSC Topics in Combinatorial Optimization
Fall 2009: CS473 Fundamental Algorithms
Spring 2009: CS598CSC Approximation Algorithms
Fall 2008: CS473 Fundamental Algorithms
Spring 2008: CS573 Topics in Algorithms - Algorithmic Game Theory
Fall 2007: CS473UG Undergraduate Algorithms
Spring 2007: CS273 Intro to Theory of Computation
Fall 2006: CS598CC Approximation Algorithms

Research Interests and Publications

theoretical computer science
design and analysis of algorithms
discrete and combinatorial optimization
approximation algorithms
mathematical programming
algorithmic applications

Most of my papers are available online here. Please put yours on the web!

Students

Alina Ene: PhD advisee
Nitish Korula: PhD advisee -- graduating in Summer 2010 and looking for a job right now!
Sungjin Im: PhD advisee
Ben Moseley: PhD advisee
Matthew Gregory: senior thesis, Spring 2009.
Kyle Fox: senior thesis, Spring 2008.
Past summer interns at Bell Labs: Rajat Bhattacharjee, Amit Chakrabarti, Marcelo Mydlarz (along with Bruce Shepherd), An Zhu

Professional Activities

    Program committees and organization:
      Current and future: COCOON 2010, APPROX 2010
      Past: ISMP 2009, NetCod 2009, ITW 2008, FAW 2008, ISAAC 2007, STOC 2007, APPROX 2007
              APPROX 2005 (Chair), FSTTCS 2004, APPROX 2004, FOCS 2003, APPROX 2003.

    Journals:
      Associate Editor: Mathematical Programming Ser A. Jan 2009 -- .
      Associate Editor: Journal of Computer System Sciences (JCSS). Nov 2005 -- .
      Area Editor: Springer Encyclopedia on Algorithms - completed.
      Guest co-editor for Algorithmica special issue on selected papers from APPROX/RANDOM 2005 - completed.
      Guest co-editor for JCSS special issue on selected papers from FOCS 2003 - completed