Samir Khuller

Samir Khuller
Samir Khuller
Born	1965
Alma mater	IIT Kanpur (B.Tech.); Cornell University (M.S., Ph.D.);
Known for	Connected dominating set
Awards	NSF Career Award (1995); ESA Test-of-Time Award (2015); EATCS Fellow (2021); ACM Fellow (2022);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	University of Maryland; Northwestern University;
Thesis	Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Disjoint Paths and Connectivity (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Vijay Vazirani
Other academic advisors	Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Esther Arkin
Doctoral students	Barna Saha

Samir Khuller (born 1965) is a professor of Computer Science and the Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science at Northwestern University. He was previously Professor and Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science in the University of Maryland's Department of Computer Science. His research is in the area of algorithm design, specifically on combinatorial optimization, graphs and networks and scheduling.