Aravind Srinivasan#
| Membership Number: | 4661 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cs.umd.edu/~srin |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, USA
- 2001 - 2006 Associate Professor with Tenure, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, USA
- 1998 - 2001 Member of Technical Staff, Mathematics of Networks and Systems Research Dept., Bell Laboratories, Lucent
- Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
- 1998 - 1998 Senior Lecturer with Tenure, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- 1997 - 1998 Tenure-track Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- 1995 - 1997 Tenure-track Lecturer, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- 1994 - 1994 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
- 1993 - 1994 Joint postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Advanced Study and DIMACS (Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science), USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Social networks
- Algorithms
- Network science
- Public health
- Combinatorial optimization
- Networking
- Probabilistic methods
- E-Commerce
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science), ``For major contributions to algorithms, the uses of randomisation in algorithms, randomness in networks, and the real-world applications of these topics"
- 2016 Distinguished Faculty Award from the Board of Visitors of the College of Computing, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (University of Maryland)
- 2016 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
- 2015 Elected Fellow of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), "For contributions to algorithms, probabilistic methods, and networks".
- 2015 Appointed Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing.
- 2014 Appointed Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Algorithms.
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), "For distinguished contributions to algorithms, probabilistic methods, and networks", 2012.
- 2010 Elected Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), "For contributions to randomized algorithms and probabilistic methods".
- 1992 IBM Graduate Fellowship.
- 1992 Research Fellowship, Mathematical Sciences Institute of Cornell University.
- 1985 Eighth in India, Joint Entrance Examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology.
