Prof. Dr. Naveen Garg

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Computer Science,Numerical Analysis, Optimization, Simulation
KeywordsAlgorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, Complexity, Graph Theory, NP-hardness

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CitySouth West Delhi
InstitutionIndian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
InstituteDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering
Homepagehttp://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~naveen

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Kurt MehlhornMax-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2002

Programme(s)

2001Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Garg is one of the leading young researchers in computer science. In particular, he is interested in approximation algorithms for network problems. An example of one of his breakthrough results is a novel algorithmic framework for computing flows in networks. This framework has been adopted and extended by several other researchers and the obtained algorithms outperform all previously nown algorithms by several orders of magnitude. During his stay at the Max Planck Institute Professor Garg is going to collaborate on network optimization problems.