Alexa Sharp

Alexa Sharp is an Associate Professor in the Teaching Stream at Carleton University's School of Computer Science. She holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Cornell University (2007 and 2005, respectively), and a B.Math in Computer Science and Combinatorics and Optimization from the University of Waterloo (2001). Her research focuses on Algorithms, Algorithmic Game Theory, and Network and Graph Theory.

• Education:
• B.Math, University of Waterloo, 2001
• M.Sc., Cornell University, 2005
• Ph.D., Cornell University, 2007

Before joining Carleton, Sharp was a professor at Oberlin College (until 2017) and worked as a software engineer at Google (2014–2017). No academic awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided text. She has no formally documented advisees listed here. Her personal interests include marathon running (enough to circle the globe at the 28th parallel) and a fondness for candy.