Aparna Das

Email: aparna@cs.brown.edu
Office 545
Box 1910, Computer Science Department  Brown University Providence, RI 02912
401-863-7600 (voice) 401-863-7657 (fax)
                                                                                                                                                                                   
Bio
I am a 4th year PhD student at Brown. I did my undergraduate work at Cornell and I have a masters from the University of Wisconsin.
I am interested in approximation algorithms. My advisor is Claire Mathieu.

I am also a part of WICS.

Publications

Greedy Bidding Strategies for Keyword Auctions. Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Ben Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna Karlin, Claire Mathieu, and Michael Schwarz. Eighth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), June 2007. A journal version that is currently in submission to Economic Inquiry.

On hierarchical diameter-clustering, and the supplier problems. Aparna Das and Claire Mathieu. Proceedings of WAOA'06, Fourth Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, September 2006, Zurich, Switzerland, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer. The presentation slides from WAOA.

Teaching Experience
During summer 08, I will TA and co-teach cs51.

I have TAed cs157 Design and Analysis of Algorithms, taught by Claire Mathieu, for 2 semesters.
At the U.Wisc I was a TA for Introduction to Algorithms, taught by Prof. Eric Bach, Introduction to Data Structures taught by Prof. Susan Horwitz and Introduction to Programming, taught by Prof. Debra Deppeler
              
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