Biography:David P. Woodruff

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David P. Woodruff
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Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MEng, PhD)
AwardsPresburger Award (2014)
Simons Investigator (2020)
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisEfficient and private distance approximation in the communication and streaming models
Doctoral advisorPiotr Indyk
Websitewww.cs.cmu.edu/~dwoodruf/

David Paul Woodruff (born 1980)[1] is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.[2] He completed his PhD at MIT in 2007.[3] His research contributions include an asymptotically optimal streaming algorithm for the count-distinct problem[4], which received the best paper award at the 2010 Symposium on Principles of Database Systems[5]. He has also co-developed randomized algorithms for linear regression and low-rank approximation, which were recognized with a best paper award at the 2013 Symposium on Theory of Computing[6].

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