Just saw a new result on the arxiv: polylog approximation for directed steiner tree! arxiv.org/abs/2412.10744 . Amazing breakthrough in a fundamental approximation algorithms problem. Congrats Bundit!

New faculty Q&A! Get to know Jess Sorrell, who joins Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor of computer science. cs.jhu.edu/news/new-facul…

If there's one lesson to be learned from the DeepSeek story, when it comes to hardware vs algorithms, always bet on the algorithms.

Trajan's (Trajan Hammonds) story & countless others like it in the face of these cuts and wild shifts in government fellowships intended for our brightest & most promising students will have long-term, deeply damaging effects on the U.S.'s competitiveness in science, math, CS and

"The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research. Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully to protect their rights." — President Eisgruber writes in @theatlantic. bit.ly/4iDZ2Fx

Amitabh Basu's first book explores convex analysis, geometry & optimization, bridging continuous & discrete approaches. A must-read for students & researchers! Available from Cambridge University Press, Amazon & more! #NewBook #MathOptimization #ConvexAnalysis #HopkinsResearch

Kernighan completed his Ph.D. at Princeton and worked for 30 years at AT&T Bell Labs. He joined the faculty in 2000. Read the full interview in the The Daily Princetonian: bit.ly/3EnvSvI

Finally our paper at CACM is out. Enjoy and please share. I highly recommend watching the interviews with experts.

Incredibly well deserved!!

I am excited to share our new monograph that dives deep into correlated noise mechanisms, one that enables real-world, production-grade differential privacy at scale, without compromising learning performance. The project started with a discussion over lunch in Google's Canopy

Hate to see this happen to Weizmann Institute - it’s a place that changed my life. And particularly sad to see this happen to the lab where my wife was a postdoc.

'the move includes a dedicated executive suite for [HUD Secretary] Turner, the construction of an executive dining room, reserved parking for the secretary's five cars, an exclusive elevator for Turner and a potential gym for Turner and his family... "While Secretary Turner and

The NeurIPS paper checklist corroborates the bureaucratic theory of statistics. argmin.net/p/standard-err…

Applications are invited for postdoc positions in my group Tel Aviv University. The selected candidates will confront challenging problems in graph algorithms (dynamic, distributed, geometric). A "remote" option may also be possible. Help me spread the word!

Excited to welcome a lot of new colleagues!

First day of class for the semester. Told my 2.5-year-old that "Daddy is going to be a teacher today, just like your teachers!". Response: "Daddy you're so silly". Apparently I lack the gravitas of a daycare teacher.

One of the best

Congrats Mark Dredze !!

If you are at Johns Hopkins tomorrow stop by --- also on Zoom: hub.jhu.edu/events/2025/10…

For any of my Princeton University friends and followers: there's a new policy out that seems like it would hurt the eating clubs, including my beloved Quad. Please consider registering your opposition! dontharvardourprinceton.com