Prasad V. Tetali is an Indian-American mathematician and computer scientist who works as a professor at the

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, with a joint appointment in mathematics and the College of Computing.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2015-01-14. His research concerns

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, discrete mathematics, and

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s. Tetali was born in

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but is now a United States citizen. He graduated from

Andhra University Andhra University ( IAST: ''Āndhra Vișvakalāpariṣhat'') is a public university located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established in 1926. History King Vikram Deo Verma, the Maharaja of Jeypore was one of the biggest d ...

in 1984, earned a master's degree in computer science in 1986 from the

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, and completed his doctorate in 1991 at the

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under the supervision of

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. After postdoctoral studies, he joined the School of Mathematics at Georgia Tech in 1994, and added a joint appointment in computing in 2001. At Georgia Tech, his doctoral students have included Adam Marcus. He was editor-in-chief of ''

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'' from 2009 to 2011. Tetali became a

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of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009, and one of the inaugural fellows of the

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in 2012.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2015-01-14.

References

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