Sriram Pemmaraju

Professor Sriram Pemmaraju is a faculty member at the Department of Computer Science, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Iowa. He leads research in theoretical computer science and computational epidemiology, focusing on distributed graph algorithms and healthcare network analysis.

• Research examines resource trade-offs in distributed systems (rounds, messages, bandwidth)
• Co-founder of the Computational Epidemiology Group, CDC-funded MInD Healthcare collaboration

Teaching: Undergraduate courses in algorithms, data structures, and discrete math; graduate courses in distributed algorithms, approximation algorithms, and computational epidemiology. Current Fall 2025 course: Computer Science I: Fundamentals.

Research trends: His work bridges

• Distributed Systems: Spanning tree sampling, APSP optimization, ruling sets
• Healthcare Networks: Vaccine allocation, infection source detection, temporal cascade modeling

Students: Mentored 3 current PhD advisees and 12 former PhD students now at Amazon, Google, IIT Madras, and other institutions.