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Speaker: Barna Saha (UCSD) Wednesday, November 13, 2024 11:30 am: Lunch (Kitchen) 12:00 pm: Talk (Seminar Room #1327) |
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Bio: Barna Saha is the Director of the National NSF TRIPODS Institute for Emerging CORE Methods in Data Science (EnCORE) and the Harry E. Gruber Endowed Chair Professor of Computer Science and Information Technologies at the University of California, San Diego. She holds appointments in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. Previously, she was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and has also served as a faculty member at UMass Amherst and a Senior Research Scientist at the AT&T Shannon Research Laboratory. Saha is also an Affiliate Faculty member of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley.
Her research interests lie in theoretical computer science, with a focus on algorithm design and fine-grained complexity. Saha explores questions such as designing fast algorithms for dynamic data, improving the complexity of classical problems like edit distance and all-pairs shortest paths, and enhancing the efficiency of training and inference in popular AI models. Saha’s work advances both the theory and practical applications of computer science, contributing to key challenges in data science and artificial intelligence.
