Faculty

Christopher Umans
Professor of Computer Science; EAS Division Deputy Chair
Degrees and Appointments
B.A., Williams College, 1996; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2000. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2002-08; Associate Professor, 2008-10; Professor, 2010-; EAS Division Deputy Chair, 2018-.
Assistant(s)
Research Group Matters
Diane Goodfellow
246 Annenberg IST Center
626-395-6842
diane@cs.caltech.edu
Research Overview
Professor Umans is interested in theoretical computer science, and especially computational complexity. He enjoys problems with an algebraic flavor, and this often leads to research questions in derandomization and explicit combinatorial constructions, algebraic algorithms, coding theory, and hardness of approximation.
List of Research Areas
computational complexity, randomness in computation, algebraic complexity and algorithms, hardness of approximation
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