Prasad V. Tetali
Prasad V. Tetali | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Prasad Tetali, Oberwolfach 2013 | |
| Born | Visakhapatnam, India |
| Nationality | USA |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | probability theory, discrete mathematics, approximation algorithms |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University Georgia Tech |
| Doctoral advisor | Joel Spencer |
| Doctoral students | Adam Marcus |
Prasad V. Tetali is an Indian-American mathematician and computer scientist who works as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His research concerns probability theory, discrete mathematics, and approximation algorithms.
Tetali was born in Visakhapatnam, India but is now a United States citizen. He graduated from Andhra University in 1984, earned a master's degree in computer science in 1986 from the Indian Institute of Science,[1] and completed his doctorate in 1991 at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University under the supervision of Joel Spencer.[1][2] After postdoctoral studies, he joined the School of Mathematics at Georgia Tech in 1994, and added a joint appointment in computing in 2001.[1] At Georgia Tech, his doctoral students have included Adam Marcus.[2] He was editor-in-chief of SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics from 2009 to 2011.[1] He moved to Carnegie Mellon University in 2021 to become the head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences.[3]
Tetali became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009,[1] and one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.[1][4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2015-01-14.
- ^ a b Prasad V. Tetali at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Prasad Tetali - Mathematical Sciences - Mellon College of Science - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-14.
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Indian computer scientists
- 20th-century Indian mathematicians
- Theoretical computer scientists
- Indian Institute of Science alumni
- Georgia Tech faculty
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
- Scientists from Visakhapatnam
- Andhra University College of Engineering alumni
- Andhra University alumni