Nitish Korula
I'm a Ph.D. student in the Algorithms/Theory group of
the Department of Computer Science at
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
My undergraduate education was at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
(better known as BITS, Pilani) in India.
I read a fair bit, and enjoy music and politics; I'm a news junkie. I like taking photographs.
Research:
My research interests are in CS theory - particularly algorithms - and combinatorics.
I mainly work on approximation algorithms for graph problems; other broad areas of interest are
randomized algorithms and the probabilistic method, graph theory, game theory and computational geometry.
I work with Chandra Chekuri and
Sariel Har-Peled.
Lately, I've been working on auction design, multi-commodity routing problems, generalizing k-MST to higher connectivity, and Orienteering,
and slightly less recently, on packing Steiner Forests.
Teaching:
- Spring 2007: CS 199, Little Bits to Big Ideas (an introduction
to Computer Science for Non-majors), with Lenny Pitt.
- Fall 2006: CS 473U, Algorithms, with Jeff Erickson.
- Spring 2006: CS 273, Formal Models of Computation, with Lenny
Pitt and Margaret Fleck.
- Fall 2005: CS 473(ug), Algorithms, with Lenny Pitt.
- Spring 2005 and Fall 2004: CS 225, Introduction to Data Structures
and Software Principles, with Jason Zych.
Contact Information
email addresses:
Official: nkorula2 at uiuc.edu
Personal: nitish.korula at gmail.com
Office Address:
3240, Siebel Center
201, N. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL - 61801
Phone: (217)-244-6433
Home Address:
1010 W. Clark St., #1
Urbana, IL - 61801
Phone: (217)-778-7872
