David Karger

David Karger
Born
David Ron Karger

(1967-05-01) May 1, 1967 (age 57)
Alma materHarvard University
Stanford University
Known forKarger's algorithm
Chord (peer-to-peer)
Consistent hashing
SpouseAllegra Goodman
AwardsACM Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsInformation Management
Human-Computer Interaction
Semantic Web
PIM[1]
InstitutionsHarvard University
Stanford University
MIT
Xerox PARC
ThesisRandom Sampling in Graph Optimization Problems (1995)
Doctoral advisorRajeev Motwani[2]
Doctoral students
Websitepeople.csail.mit.edu/karger

David Ron Karger (born May 1, 1967) is an American computer scientist who is professor and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.