S. Muthukrishnan (computer scientist)

S. ("Muthu") Muthukrishnan is a computer scientist of Indian origin, known for his work in streaming algorithms, auction design, and pattern matching. He is vice president of sponsored products, Amazon (company) Advertising.[1]

In this Indian name, the name S. is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Muthukrishnan.
S. Muthukrishnan
Alma materNew York University, PhD (1994)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsAmazon (company)
ThesisSearching for Strings and Searching in Presence of Lies (1994)
Doctoral advisorKrishna Palem and Joel Spencer

Previously, he was a professor of computer science at Rutgers University.[2]

Education

Muthukrishnan obtained his Ph.D. in 1994 New York University under the supervision of Krishna Palem and Joel Spencer.[3]

Research contributions

Muthukrishnan was general chair of the 1st ACM Conference on Online Social Networks.[4] He was conference chair of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in 2005[5] and co-chair of the 15th Annual Combinatorial Pattern Matching Symposium (CPM) in 2004.[6] He was the organizer of the Big Data Program at the Simons Center for Theoretical Computer Science.[7]

Awards and honors

Muthukrishnan was inducted as an ACM Fellow in 2010 "For contributions to efficient algorithms for string matching, data streams, and internet ad auctions".[8] He received the 2014 Imre Simon Test-of-Time Award at the LATIN Conference.[9]

Selected publications
  • Muthukrishnan, S (2005), "Data streams: Algorithms and applications" (PDF), Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science, 1 (2): 117–236, doi:10.1561/0400000002, S2CID 145349.
  • Cormode, Graham; Muthukrishnan, S. (2005), "An improved data stream summary: the count-min sketch and its applications", Journal of Algorithms, 55 (1): 58–75, doi:10.1016/j.jalgor.2003.12.001.
  • Gravano, Luis; Ipeirotis, Panagiotis; Jagadish, Hosagrahar Visvesvaraya; Koudas, Nick; Muthukrishnan, S.; Srivastava, Divesh (2001), "Approximate string joins in a database (almost) for free", VLDB: 491–500.

References
  1. Amazon Advertising
  2. Rutgers Department of Computer Science People
  3. S. Muthukrishnan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ACM Digital Library COSN
  5. IEEE Digital Library ICDM '05
  6. Combinatorial Pattern Matching
  7. Simons Institute Muthu Muthukrishnan
  8. S. Muthukrishnan Award Winner
  9. Imre Simon Test of Time Award
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