About the Authors
Robert Krauthgamer
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
robert[td]krauthgamer[ta]weizmann[td]ac[td]il
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~robi
Robert Krauthgamer received his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2001 under Uriel Feige. He was subsequently a postdoc in Berkeley's theory group, and then a Research Staff Member at the theory group in the IBM Almaden Research Center. Since 2007, he has been a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Robert's main research area is the design of algorithms for problems involving combinatorial optimization, finite metric spaces, high-dimensional geometry, data analysis, and related areas. His favorite sport since youth is swimming, and once he swam across the Sea of Galilee in a 10km race, and was the last one to arrive at the finish line.
Tim Roughgarden
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford, CA USA
tim[ta]cs[td]stanford[td]edu
http://theory.stanford.edu/~tim
Tim Roughgarden received his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 2002 under Éva Tardos. His research interests are in algorithms, and especially in algorithmic game theory.