| Torsten Suel | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 April ? ? |
| Residence | Germany, U.S. |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Computer Scientist |
| Institutions | Polytechnic Institute of New York University |
| Alma mater | Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany University of Texas at Austin |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Gregory Plaxton |
| Notable awards | Best paper award of 14th ACM World Wide Web Conference (2005) |
Torsten Suel is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.[1] He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Greg Plaxton.[2] His most heavily cited publications[3] are for his work on an implementation of bulk synchronous parallel computation, streaming algorithms for histograms, join operations in databases, distributed algorithms for dominating sets, and web crawler algorithms.