Aravind Srinivasan

Aravind Srinivasan is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, USA, since 2006. He was previously an Associate Professor with Tenure (2001-2006) and has held roles at Bell Laboratories and the National University of Singapore.

• B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Madras
• Ph.D., Cornell University

His research focuses on randomized algorithms, social networks, combinatorial optimization, and probabilistic methods, with applications in public health, machine learning, energy, and networking. He explores the intersection of algorithms and networks, applying these techniques to domains like the social Web, biology, and energy systems.

• Elected Fellow of the ACM (2015), AAAS (2012), IEEE (2010), and EATCS (2017)
• Distinguished Faculty Award (University of Maryland, 2016)
• Distinguished Alumnus Award (IIT Madras, 2016)
• IBM Graduate Fellowship (1992) and Cornell Research Fellowship (1992)
• Best Paper/Best Student Paper Awards at conferences

Dr. Srinivasan has mentored PhD students who now hold tenure-track positions, work in research labs (AT&T, IBM), major corporations, and U.S. Government agencies, while some have founded startups. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Algorithms and delivered keynote lectures globally.