Aravind Srinivasan
Distinguished University Professor
4204 Iribe Center
(301) 405-2695
(301) 405-6709
Research Group(s):
Education:
Ph.D. Cornell University (Computer Science)
Special Awards/Honors:
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow
Biography:
Aravind Srinivasan is a Distinguished University Professor of computer science with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
His research focuses on algorithms, probabilistic methods, and data science, with applications in areas such as health, E-commerce, cloud computing, and fairness in AI. Srinivasan’s work spans computational epidemiology, genomics, Internet economy, social networks, and sustainable growth, aiming to advance both the theory and practical application of these fields.
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Publications
2012
2012. Optimizing epidemic protection for socially essential workers. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium. :31-40.
2012. Mobile Data Offloading through Opportunistic Communications and Social Participation. Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on. 11(5):821-834.
2012. Networking lessons: From computers to water. 2012 Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS). :1-6.
2011
2011. Capacity of wireless networks under SINR interference constraints. Wireless Networks. 17(7):1605-1624.
2011. Maximum bipartite flow in networks with adaptive channel width. Theoretical Computer Science. 412(24):2577-2587.
2011. Predicting Trust and Distrust in Social Networks. Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT), 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on and 2011 IEEE Third International Confernece on Social Computing (SocialCom). :418-424.
2011. Network Clustering Approximation Algorithm Using One Pass Black Box Sampling. arXiv:1110.3563.
2011. Approximation algorithms for throughput maximization in wireless networks with delay constraints. 2011 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM. :1116-1124.
2011. Local Balancing Influences Global Structure in Social Networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPNAS. 108(5):1751-1752.
2011. Article 28 (28 pages)-New Constructive Aspects of the Lovász Local Lemma. Journal of the ACM-Association for ComputingMachinery. 58(6)
2010
2010. LP-rounding algorithms for facility-location problems. arXiv:1007.3611.
2010. Cellular traffic offloading through opportunistic communications: a case study. Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Challenged networks. :31-38.
2010. Mobile data offloading in metropolitan area networks. SIGMOBILE Mob. Comput. Commun. Rev.. 14(4):28-30.
2010. Fault-Tolerant Facility Location: A Randomized Dependent LP-Rounding Algorithm. Integer Programming and Combinatorial OptimizationInteger Programming and Combinatorial Optimization. 6080:244-257.
2010. New Constructive Aspects of the Lovasz Local Lemma. 2010 51st Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS). :397-406.
2010. On k-Column Sparse Packing Programs. Integer Programming and Combinatorial OptimizationInteger Programming and Combinatorial Optimization. 6080:369-382.
2009
2009. On random sampling auctions for digital goods. Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Electronic commerce. :187-196.
2009. Rigorous Probabilistic Trust-Inference with Applications to Clustering. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies, 2009. WI-IAT '09. 1:655-658.
2009. Scheduling on Unrelated Machines under Tree-Like Precedence Constraints. Algorithmica. 55(1):205-226.
2009. Improving recommendation accuracy by clustering social networks with trust. Recommender Systems & the Social Web. :1-8.
2009. A unified approach to scheduling on unrelated parallel machines. J. ACM. 56(5):28:1–28:31-28:1–28:31.
2009. Distributed Strategies for Channel Allocation and Scheduling in Software-Defined Radio Networks. IEEE INFOCOM 2009. :1521-1529.
2008
2008. Budgeted Allocations in the Full-Information Setting. Approximation, Randomization and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and TechniquesApproximation, Randomization and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques. 5171:247-253.
2008. The Randomized Coloring Procedure with Symmetry-Breaking. Automata, Languages and ProgrammingAutomata, Languages and Programming. 5125:306-319.
2008. Capacity of Asynchronous Random-Access Scheduling in Wireless Networks. IEEE INFOCOM 2008. The 27th Conference on Computer Communications. :1148-1156.
2008. Approximation Algorithms for Computing Capacity of Wireless Networks with SINR Constraints. IEEE INFOCOM 2008. The 27th Conference on Computer Communications. :1166-1174.
2008. A note on the distribution of the number of prime factors of the integers. Information Processing Letters. 109(2):133-135.
2008. Cost-Sharing Mechanisms for Network Design. Algorithmica. 50(1):98-119.
2008. Efficient and Resilient Backbones for Multihop Wireless Networks. Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on. 7(11):1349-1362.
2008. Improved algorithmic versions of the Lovász Local Lemma. Proceedings of the nineteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms. :611-620.
2007
2007. Efficient lookup on unstructured topologies. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 25(1):62-72.
2007. Provable algorithms for joint optimization of transport, routing and MAC layers in wireless ad hoc networks. Proc. DialM-POMC Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing.
2007. Approximation algorithms for stochastic and risk-averse optimization. Proceedings of the eighteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms. :1305-1313.
2007. Fast and scalable approximation methods for finding minimum cost flows with .... 10/053,079(7280526)
2007. Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis in Wireless Networking. Stochastic Algorithms: Foundations and ApplicationsStochastic Algorithms: Foundations and Applications. 4665:54-57.
2007. Cross-layer latency minimization in wireless networks with SINR constraints. Proceedings of the 8th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing. :110-119.
2007. Distributed Ranked Search. High Performance Computing – HiPC 2007High Performance Computing – HiPC 2007. 4873:7-20.
2007. Distributed ranked search. High Performance Computing–HiPC 2007. :7-20.
2006
2006. Ranking search results in P2P systems. Technical Report, CR-TR-4779, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland.
2006. Lower Bounds on the Deterministic and Quantum Communication Complexities of Hamming-Distance Problems. Algorithms and ComputationAlgorithms and Computation. 4288:628-637.
2006. Review of "The Random Projection Method by Santosh Vempala". SIGACT News. 37(4):41-43.
2006. An improved approximation algorithm for vertex cover with hard capacities. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 72(1):16-33.
2006. Client-driven channel management for wireless LANs. SIGMOBILE Mob. Comput. Commun. Rev.. 10(4):8-10.
2006. Approximation algorithms for channel allocation problems in broadcast networks. Networks. 47(4):225-236.
2006. Session 8A-Combinatorial Optimization and Quantum Computing-Lower Bounds on the Deterministic and Quantum Communication Complexities of Hamming-Distance Problems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4288:628-637.
2006. Dependent rounding and its applications to approximation algorithms. Journal of the ACM. 53(3):324-360.
2006. A client-driven approach for channel management in wireless LANs. IEEE Infocom. 6
2006. Provable algorithms for parallel generalized sweep scheduling. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 66(6):807-821.
2006. Structure of social contact networks and their impact on epidemics. DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. 70:181-181.
2006. System and method for locating a closest server in response to a client .... 09/726,192(7020698)
2006. Ranking search results in peer-to-peer systems. Technical Reports from UMIACS.
2006. Resilient multicast using overlays. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 14(2):237-248.
2005
2005. Efficient lookup on unstructured topologies. Proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing. :77-86.
2005. Scheduling on Unrelated Machines Under Tree-Like Precedence Constraints. Approximation, Randomization and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and TechniquesApproximation, Randomization and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques. 3624:609-609.
2005. Efficient strategies for channel management in wireless lans. UMD, CS Tech. Rep. CS-TR. 4729
2005. Algorithmic aspects of capacity in wireless networks. Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems. :133-144.
2004
2004. Scalable resilient media streaming. Proceedings of the 14th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video. :4-9.
2004. Method of designing signaling networks for internet telephony. : 09/517,658(6687363)
2004. SESSION 2: STREAMING. Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video: NOSSDAV 2003: June 16-18, 2004, Cork, Ireland. :3-3.
2004. End-to-end packet-scheduling in wireless ad-hoc networks. Proceedings of the fifteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms. :1021-1030.
2004. Modelling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks. Nature. 429(6988):180-184.
2004. Special issue: 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 69(3):305-305.
2004. Approximation algorithms for partial covering problems. Journal of Algorithms. 53(1):55-84.
2004. Structural and algorithmic aspects of massive social networks. Proceedings of the fifteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms. :718-727.
2004. Guest editors' foreword: special issue: 35th annual ACM symposium on theory of computing. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 69(3):305-305.
2003
2003. An Improved Approximation Ratio for the Covering Steiner Problem. Theory of Computing. 2:53-64.
2003. On the approximability of clique and related maximization problems. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 67(3):633-651.
2003. Resilient multicast using overlays. SIGMETRICS Perform. Eval. Rev.. 31(1):102-113.
2003. On the Covering Steiner Problem. FST TCS 2003: Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer ScienceFST TCS 2003: Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. 2914:244-251.