Theoretical Computer Science at NYU
We are the Theoretical Computer Science Group at New York University. Researchers in our group are interested in applying mathematical tools to a variety of disciplines in computer science, from security, to systems, to computational geometry, and beyond. Visit our individual webpages to learn more, or join our mailing list. Students interested in applying for a Ph.D. should read the information here.
Faculty
Boris Aronov
Computational and combinatorial geometry, algorithms
Aaron Bernstein
Graph algorithms, streaming, parallel & distributed algos, approx. algos
Marshall Ball
Cryptography,
computational complexity
Nir Bitansky
Foundations of cryptography, proof systems, quantum crypto
Benedikt Bunz
Blockchains via applied crypto, game theory, consensus.
Yi-Jen Chiang
Data visualization, motion planning, computational geometry, algos
Richard Cole
Algorithmic economics & game theory, algos in nature & society
Yevgeniy Dodis
Cryptography, security, info. theory, complexity theory, algorithms
Martin Farach-Colton
Data structures, algorithms, systems
Anupam Gupta
Algorithms, approximation & online algorithms, metric embeddings
Lisa Hellerstein
Computational learning theory, ML, algorithms, complexity
Subhash Khot
Algorithms, computational complexity and intractability
Mehryar Mohri
Learning theory
Christopher Musco
Randomized algos, numerical linear algebra, ML
Sunoo Park
Technology law and policy, crypto, computer security
Oded Regev
Lattice-based crypto, quantum, mathematical aspects of TCS
Alan Siegel
VLSI design, lower bounds, parallel algo, probability, geometry
Joel Spencer
(Emeritus)
Theoretical computer science and discrete math
Chee Yap
Comp. geometry, comp. algebra, visualization, robotics
Jie Xue
Comp. geometry, algorithms, data structures, graph theory
Postdocs, Fellows, and Visitors
Nairen Cao (Tandon Faculty Fellow)
Graph Algorithms, parallel Algorithms
Radoslav Fulek (Visiting Prof.)
Computational geometry, graph drawing, combinatorics
Tyler Chen (Instructor)
Numerical linear algebra, randomized algos, quantum physics
Michael Chapman (Simons J. Fell.)
Group theory, graph theory, quantum info.
Jiaxin Guan (Faculty Fellow)
Cryptography
Daniel Jost (Postdoc)
Cryptography
Stefano Leonardi (Visiting Faculty)
Algorithms Theory, Algorithms + Data Science, Econ. + Computation
Rotem Oshman (Visiting Prof.)
Distributed computing, communication complexity
David Persson (Instructor)
Numerical linear algebra, low-rank approximation, randomized algos
Kevin Pratt (Postdoc)
Theoretical computer science, combinatorics, algebra
Akbar Rafiey (Visiting Prof.)
Combinatorial Optimization (CO), Responsible CO, ML for CO
Ph.D. Students
Noah Amsel
Deep learning numerical linear algebra, optimization
Aritra Bhowmick
Streaming and sketching algorithms, deep learning, graphs
Jessica Chen
Cryptography, security, proof systems
Majid Daliri
Statistics, optimization, ML theory, graphs and networks
Haya Diwan
Algorithms, ML, theory of computation, discrete math
Feyza Duman Keles
Complexity, ML, DL theory, algorithms & lower bounds
Aarshvi Gajjar
Sampling, sketching, approx. theory, high-dim. geometry
Eli Goldin
Theory of crypto, randomness extraction, quantum crypto
Peter Hall
Cryptography
Hanna Komlós
Data structures, randomized algorithms, external memory
Daji Landis
Cryptography and Algorithmic Game Theory
Sihyun Lee
Cryptography
Kelly Marshall
Machine learning, deep reinforcement learning, generative models
Raphael Meyer
Statistical learning theory, randomized algorithms
Minh Pham
Machine Learning
Indu Ramesh
Algorithms, graph theory, computational geometry
Lucas Rosenblatt
Differential privacy, algorithmic fairness, machine learning
Matteo Russo
(Visiting Student) Online Algorithms, Algorithmic Game Theory
Yarin Shechter
Data structures, algorithms
Apoorv V. Singh
Algorithmic ML, robust statistics, randomized algorithms
William Wang
Cryptography
Zhaozi Wang
Online Algorithms, Algorithm Design
R. Teal Witter
Algorithms, graph theory, boolean functions, ML, quantum
Other Faculty Interested in Theory
Chinmay Hegde
Machine learning, algorithms, signal and image processing
Gad Landau
String algos, compu. biology, communication networks
Eyal Lubetzky
Probability theory, combinatorics
Jinyoung Park
Extremal & prob. combinatorics, threshold phenomena
Torsten Suel
Algo, web search & info. retrieval, databases, distributed comp.
Jiawei Zhang
Business analytics and optimization