Samir Khuller
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| Born | 1965 |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
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| Doctoral advisor | Vijay Vazirani |
Samir Khuller (born 1965) is a professor of Computer Science and the Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science at Northwestern University. He was previously Professor and Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science in the University of Maryland's Department of Computer Science.
Biography
Khuller obtained his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and was awarded a PhD in 1990 from Cornell University as a student of Vijay Vazirani. From 1990 to 1992, he was a research associate at UMIACS (the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies), a division of the University of Maryland. In 1992 he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science. He became the Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science in 2012, a position he held until 2017.[1][2]
He was named a Distinguished Scholar Teacher and received a Google Research Award in 2007.[3]
Khuller joined Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering in March 2019 as the first Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science.[2]
References
- ^ Anderson, Nick (11 September 2014). "Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus VR, makes record $31 million donation to U-Md". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
- ^ a b Gerage, Alex (29 October 2018). "Samir Khuller Named Barris Chair of Computer Science". Northwestern Engineering. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ "Faculty Research Award recipients". Retrieved 9 May 2015.
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