Grigory Yaroslavtsev is a Russian-American

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. He is an assistant professor of computer science at

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. Previously he was an assistant professor of computer science at

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and the founding director of the Center for Algorithms and Machine Learning (CAML) at

Early education and competitive programing

Yaroslavtsev was born in

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, then Leningrad, in 1987. He attended the St. Petersburg Classical Gymnasium through 9th grade. In 2004, Yaroslavtsev graduated from the Physics and Technology School in St. Petersburg, a high school founded by

Zhores Alferov Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (russian: link=no, Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, ; be, Жарэс Іва́навіч Алфёраў; 15 March 19301 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed signific ...

. Yaroslavtsev completed a B.S. in applied physics at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in 2008. In 2010, he received his M.S. from St. Petersburg Academic University as the first student in a pilot theoretical computer science program. Yaroslavtsev was active through 2011 in international programming competitions. He was one of 24 world finalists in algorithms in the 2010

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competition and is a member of the TCO hall of fame. Yaroslavtsev also coached the high school team of the Physics and Technology School in 2009, when the team placed first in St. Petersburg.

Career

Yaroslavtsev completed his PhD in computer science in three years in 2013 at

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, advised by Sofya Raskhodnikova. His dissertation was titled ''Efficient Combinatorial Techniques in Sparsification, Summarization and Testing of Large Datasets''. After an

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institute postdoctoral fellowship at

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, he joined the

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in the first cohort of fellows at the Warren Center for Network and Data Science, founded by Michael Kearns. In 2016, Yaroslavtsev joined the faculty at

in the Department of Computer Science and founded the Center for Algorithms and Machine Learning (CAML) at Indiana University. He held a secondary appointment in the Department of Statistics at Indiana University. Yaroslavtsev held a visiting position at the

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in 2019. In 2021, Yaroslavtsev joined the faculty at

in the Department of Computer Science. Yaroslavtsev is best known for his work on

massively parallel computing Massively parallel is the term for using a large number of computer processors (or separate computers) to simultaneously perform a set of coordinated computations in parallel. GPUs are massively parallel architecture with tens of thousands of t ...

and algorithms for

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

, clustering analysis including

correlation clustering Clustering is the problem of partitioning data points into groups based on their similarity. Correlation clustering provides a method for clustering a set of objects into the optimum number of clusters without specifying that number in advance. De ...

, and privacy in network analysis and targeted search.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yaroslavtsev, Grigory 1987 births Living people Russian computer scientists Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University alumni Pennsylvania State University alumni Competitive programmers