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Position: Assistant Professor Pronouns: he/him Office: TCL 306 Phone: 413.597.2744 E-mail: [email protected] Website |
Education
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Ph.D. Stony Brook University, New York 2016
- B.S. Tufts University, Massachusetts 2010
Interests
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Hashing and randomization
- Similarity Search
- I/O-efficient Algorithms
- Scheduling
Biography
Sam received his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 2016. His graduate work was on algorithms for scheduling and external memory. Since then he has worked as a post-doc at IT University of Copenhagen, Wellesley College, and Bar-Ilan University.
Research
Sam is currently working on problems involving randomized data structures. He is interested in similarity search, in which a database is searched for the most similar item to a given query. He also has projects on Bloom filters and ordered file maintenance.