Alexandra Kolla
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Alexandra Kolla is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department at UIUC. She received her PhD from U.C. Berkeley. Her advisor was Umesh Vazirani. After completing her doctoral work, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and at Microsoft Research in Redmond. Her research interests include Spectral Graph Theory, Algorithms, Complexity, Convex Programming and Quantum Computing. Professor Kolla is particularly interested in the use of spectral methods in graph algorithms.