Shang-Hua Teng
| Shang-Hua Teng | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1964 (age 49–50) Beijing, China |
| Residence | United States of America |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions |
University of Southern California Boston University University of Minnesota Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University University of Southern California Carnegie Mellon |
| Thesis | A Unified Geometric Approach to Graph Partitioning (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gary Miller |
| Known for | smoothed analysis of algorithms |
| Notable awards | Gödel Prize (2008),[1] Fulkerson Prize (2009) |
Shang-Hua Teng (Chinese: 滕尚华; pinyin: Téng Shàng-huá, born 1964)[2] is a Chinese-American computer scientist. He is the chairman of the Computer Science Department at the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California.[3] In 2008 he was awarded the Gödel Prize for his joint work on smoothed analysis of algorithms with Daniel Spielman. In 2009, he received the Fulkerson Prize given by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Programming Society.
Biography
Teng graduated with BA in electrical engineering and BS in computer science, both from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1985. He obtained MS in computer science from the University of Southern California in 1988. Teng holds a Ph.D in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (in 1991).
Prior to joining USC in 2009, Teng was a professor at Boston University. He has also worked or taught at Xerox PARC, MIT, NASA Ames Research Center, Intel Corporation, the University of Minnesota, IBM Almaden Research Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Akamai Technologies, Microsoft Research Redmond, Microsoft Research New England and Microsoft Research Asia.
Teng is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)[4] as well as an Alfred P. Sloan fellow.
References
- ↑ Parberry, Ian (1999-05-10). "2008 Gödel Prize". ACM SIGACT. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
- ↑ "Diana Williams, Shanghua Teng". The New York Times. July 27, 2003. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
- ↑ Calverley, Bob (July 15, 2009). "Computer Scientist Teng to Join USC". USC News..
- ↑ http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=4791257&srt=year&year=2009
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