ECE Welcomes Texas Instruments Visiting Professor (February 2009)
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Piotr Indyk
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February 19, 2009 - As part of its 1996 gift to Rice, Texas Instruments established an endowment to bring professors from other leading universities to Rice each year. These professors spend the time teaching and participating in TI/Rice collaborative research in electrical and computer engineering. The 11th distinguished TI Visiting Professor, Dr. Piotr Indyk is working jointly with Professor Richard Baraniuk on compressive sensing research.
Dr. Indyk joined MIT in September 2000, after earning PhD from Stanford University, and is now Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received Magister degree from Uniwersytet Warszawski in 1995.
Indyk’s research focuses on computational geometry (especially in high dimensional spaces), algorithms using sublinear time and/or space, and streaming algorithms. Other research interests include algorithmic coding theory and pattern matching problems. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER Award (2002), Sloan Fellowship (2003) and Packard Research Fellowship (2003).
Attend the colloquium, "Sketching, Streaming and Sub-linear Space Algorithms", and meet Dr. Indyk, Tuesday, March 3 at 3:30pm in Keck Hall 102.