Shuchi Chawla
Alma mater
Known foralgorithms research
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Austin

Shuchi Chawla is an Indian computer scientist who works in the design and analysis of algorithms,[1] and is known for her research on correlation clustering,[CC] information privacy,[PD] mechanism design,[MD] approximation algorithms,[AO] hardness of approximation,[HA] and algorithmic bias.[2] She works as a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.[3]

Education and career

Chawla earned a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2000,[1][4] and received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. Her dissertation, Graph Algorithms for Planning and Partitioning, was supervised by Avrim Blum.[5] After postdoctoral studies at Stanford University under the mentorship of Tim Roughgarden,[6] and at Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, she joined the Wisconsin faculty in 2006.[4]. She joined the UT-Austin faculty in 2021. She won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2009,[7] and was named a Kavli Fellow in 2012.[8]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 Curriculum vitae (PDF), Carnegie Mellon University, 2005, retrieved 2018-09-18
  2. Kassner, Michael (July 11, 2017), "Fairness-verification tool helps avoid illegal bias in algorithms", TechRepublic
  3. "Professor", Faculty profile, UT-Austin Computer Science Department, retrieved 2021-03-10
  4. 1 2 "Professor", Faculty profile, UW-Madison Computer Science Department, retrieved 2021-03-10
  5. Shuchi Chawla at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Roughgarden, Tim, Tim Roughgarden's Current and Past Students, Stanford University, retrieved 2018-09-20
  7. Devitt, Terry (February 20, 2009), "Four faculty awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships", University of Wisconsin–Madison News
  8. Barncard, Chris (November 8, 2012), "UW contingent among Kavli Frontiers of Science fellows", University of Wisconsin–Madison News
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