Torsten Suel | |
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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.