S. Muthukrishnan (computer scientist)


S. Muthukrishnan is a computer scientist of Indian origin, known for his work in streaming algorithms, auction design, and pattern matching. He is vice president of sponsored products, Amazon Advertising.
Previously, he was a professor of computer science at Rutgers University.
WWW cs.rutgers.edu/~muthu

Education

Muthukrishnan obtained his Ph.D. in 1994 New York University under the supervision of Krishna Palem and Joel Spencer.

Research contributions

Muthukrishnan was general chair of the 1st ACM Conference on Online Social Networks. He was conference chair of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining in 2005 and co-chair of the 15th Annual Combinatorial Pattern Matching Symposium in 2004. He was the organizer of the Big Data Program at the Simons Center for Theoretical Computer Science.

Awards and honors

Muthukrishnan was inducted as an ACM Fellow in 2010 "For contributions to efficient algorithms for string matching, data streams, and internet ad auctions". He received the 2014 Imre Simon Test-of-Time Award at the LATIN Conference.

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