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- Avrim Blum
- Professor of Computer Science
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Department of Computer Science
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
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avrim at cs.cmu.edu
- Office: Wean 4130
- Tel: (412) 268-6452
- Fax: (412) 268-5576
- Admin assist: Nicole Stenger, Wean 4207, 268-3779
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My main research interests are machine learning theory, approximation
algorithms, on-line algorithms, and algorithmic game theory /
mechanism design, and some time ago I did work in AI Planning. I was/am on the Program Committees for
FOCS 2008 (Symp. Foundations of
Computer Science),
ACM-EC 2008 (Electronic Commerce),
and COLT 2007
(Conference on Learning Theory), and
am currently co-organizing a NIPS 2008 workshop on Learning with Data
Dependent Concept Spaces.
I also co-organized a series of NSF Workshops on the Computational Worldview and the Sciences.
A while back I served as Program Chair for
FOCS 2000.
For more information on my research, see the publications and research
interests links below. I am also affiliated with the Machine Learning department.
I am currently (Spring 2009) teaching
15-859(B) Machine Learning Theory.
See also the 2008 version at www.machinelearning.com.
My advisees:
Or Sheffet,
Pranjal Awasthi,
Aaron Roth,
Katrina Ligett.
Past advisees: Prasad
Chalasani, Santosh
Vempala,
Carl Burch,
Adam Kalai,
John Langford,
Nikhil Bansal,
Martin Zinkevich,
Shuchi Chawla,
Brendan McMahan,
Nina Balcan,
Shobha Venkataraman,
Mugizi Robert Rwebangira.
Some old friends: Sergie
(his band),
Sasha, Elliott.
[Last updated December 2008]
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