Samir Khuller (born 1965) is a professor of Computer Science and the Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

. He was previously Professor and Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science in the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

's Department of Computer Science.

Biography

Khuller obtained his undergraduate degree from the

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was ...

and was awarded a PhD in 1990 from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

as a student of

Vijay Vazirani Vijay Virkumar Vazirani ( hi, विजय वीरकुमार वज़ीरानी; b. 1957) is an Indian American distinguished professor of computer science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the Universi ...

. From 1990 to 1992, he was a research associate at UMIACS (the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies), a division of the

. 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. He was named a Distinguished Scholar Teacher and received a Google Research Award in 2007. 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. He was named to the 2022 class of

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s, "for contributions to algorithm design with real-world implications and for mentoring and community-building".

References

External links

Samir KhullerGoogle Scholar profile
Living people 1965 births Indian computer scientists University of Maryland, College Park faculty Northwestern University faculty Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery {{Compu-scientist-stub