Mohammad Hajiaghayi

Professor

Jack and Rita G. Minker Professor

Email: hajiagha

cs[.dot.]umd[.dot.]edu

Phone:

(301) 405-6724

Location:

IRB 5158

Website:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hajiagha/

Google Scholar:

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Wikipedia Bio:

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Education:

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005

Appointments:

CS, UMIACS

Research Areas:

Algorithms and Theory, Databases and Big Data, Machine Learning and Data Science

Interest Areas:

design and analysis of algorithm, auction design and algorithmic game theory, algorithmic graph theory, approximation algorithms, fixed-parameter tractable algorithms, networking and wireless network design, embeddings and its algorithmic aspect, random structures and algorithms

Biography

Dr. Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi is the Jack and Rita G. Minker Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland with a joint appointment in the University's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). In addition, he holds a Research Affiliate position in MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and is a Permanent Member of Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) at Rutgers. Before joining the University of Maryland, he was a Senior Researcher in the Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science group at AT&T Labs-- Research to which he is still a consultant. Before that, he was a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (with ALADDIN project) and a one-year Postdoctoral Associate in MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) from which he also earned his Ph.D in 2005. During his Ph.D. studies, he spent some time at IBM Research centers and Microsoft Research centers. Dr. Hajiaghayi got his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in 2001 and his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2000.

Dr. Hajiaghayi's research interests are algorithmic game theory and combinatorial auctions, network design, combinatorial optimizations and approximation algorithms, fixed-parameter algorithms, algorithmic graph theory, distributed and mobile computing, and computational geometry and embeddings. In the course of his professional career in these areas, he has published more than 110 papers in top conferences and journals of computer science, won a few best paper awards, and served in program committees or editorial boards of several well-known international conferences and journals. He has received an NSF CAREER Award in 2010, a Google Faculty Research Award in 2010, an ONR Young Investigator Award in 2011, and the University of Maryland Research and Scholarship Award (RASA) in 2011. He won best paper awards at the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) 2010, the International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC) 2006, and the Robocup 2001 Conference.