Christopher Umans | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Williams College, University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Computational complexity, algorithms, hardness of approximation, matrix multiplication |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Christos Papadimitriou |
Christopher Umans is a professor of Computer Science in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for work on algorithms, computational complexity, algebraic complexity, and hardness of approximation.