Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli

Prof. Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli (T. K. Satish Kumar) is a faculty member at the University of Southern California (USC) with appointments in the Departments of Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, and Industrial and Systems Engineering. He leads the Collaboratory for Algorithmic Techniques and Artificial Intelligence (CATAI) at USC’s Information Sciences Institute, focusing on combinatorial problems in AI.

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University (2005)
• M.S., Computer Science, Stanford University (2003)
• B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (1999)

His research spans multi-agent systems, combinatorial optimization, and constraint satisfaction, with applications in robotics, quantum computing, and data informatics. Recent work includes FastMap-based architectures and algorithms for pathfinding and facility location problems.

Notable awards include the Best Student Paper Award (2005) at ICAPS. His lab has produced peer-reviewed publications in venues like AAAI, AAMAS, and Nature Communications Engineering.