I am a second year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon, studying theoretical computer science, with an emphasis on algorithms, learning theory, and computational game theory. My advisors are Ryan O’Donnell and Avrim Blum.
I graduated in 2006 from Columbia University, with a B.A. in mathematics and computer science.
My lovely girlfriend Cathy is getting her PhD in mathematics at MIT. She has insisted that I place a link here to her website.
My username at cs.CMU is “alroth”, which is a hint in case you want to email me.
This semester I am helping to organize Theory Lunch. You should give a talk!
I sometimes update my blog with sometimes academic posts.