About the Authors
Konstantin Makarychev
Konstantin Makarychev
researcher
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
komakary[ta]microsoft[td]com
www.cs.princeton.edu/~kmakaryc/
Konstantin Makarychev, known as “Kostya” to his friends, is a Researcher at Microsoft Research. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of Moses Charikar in 2008. From 2007 to 2012, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research. In 2012, Kostya joined Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.

Yury Makarychev
Yury Makarychev
assistant professor
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Chicago, IL
yury[ta]ttic[td]edu
ttic.uchicago.edu/~yury/
Yury Makarychev is an Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of Moses Charikar in 2008. Yury did a postdoctoral fellowship at Microsoft Research and then joined TTIC in 2009.