Teaching and Service

Teaching

• Boston College

  • Fall 2021, Spring 2024: Randomness and Computation

  • Spring 2021: Large-Scale Data Processing

  • Fall 2018 - Fall 2020, Fall 2022 - Fall 2023: CSCI3383 Algorithms

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte:

  • • Spring 2018: ITCS 6114 Algorithms and Data Structures  

    • Fall 2017: ITCS 6114 Algorithms and Data Structures  

• MIT:

  • • Spring 2017: An organizer of the Realistic Distributed Algorithms reading group

• University of Michigan:

  • • Fall 2014: Graduate Student Instructor for EECS 477 Introduction to Algorithms

    • Winter 2013: Graduate Student Instructor for EECS 477 Introduction to Algorithms

Students and Postdocs

• • Steven Roche => PhD Student @ MIT - WHOI

    • Scholar of the College Honors Thesis @ Boston College

    • Thesis title: Min-Max Correlation Clustering

  • Nairen Cao (2022-2024)

    • Postdoc @ Boston College => Faculty Fellow @ NYU

  • Shang-En Huang (2022-2024)

    • Postdoc @ Boston College => Assistant Professor @ National Taiwan University

  • Vahan Mkrtchyan (2021-2022) 

    • Senior Research Fellow @ Boston College

  • Jiaxuan Huang

    • Undergraduate Honors Thesis @ Boston College

    • Thesis title: A Distributed Algorithm for (1-ε)-Matching in General Graphs

  • Hoa Vu (2018-2019)

    • Postdoc @ Boston College => Assistant Professor @ San Deigo State University

  • Nicole Wein 

    • MIT Ph.D. student

    • Result: Lower Bounds for Dynamic Distributed Task Allocation

  • Jeet Mohapatra 

    • MIT undergraduate

    • Supervising period: Spring 2017 to Fall 2017

    • Result: Optimal Gossip Algorithms for Exact and Approximate Quantile Computations

• Lilika Markatou

  • • MIT Master's student 

    • Supervising period: Spring 2017

    • Supervised her in writing up

      • Leader Election in SINR Model with Arbitrary Power Control and some unpublished results.

Service

• • Technical Program Committee or Program Committee

    • European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 2022

    • International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), 2021

    • International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), 2020

    • IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2020

    • ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), 2019

    • IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2018

    • International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP), Track C, 2017