Nirman Kumar
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
COMPUTER SCIENCE
The University of Memphis
United States of America
Biography
I am an assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Memphis, TN. Prior to this position, I was a postdoctoral research scholar in the Center for Geometric Computing at the University of California, in the breath-takingly beautiful city Santa Barbara where my mentor was Prof. Subhash Suri . Even before that, I was a Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where my advisor was Prof. Sariel Har-Peled.
Research Interest
Theoretical Computer Science
Publications
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Robust Proximity Search and Density Estimation in Sublinear Space Sariel Har-Peled and Nirman Kumar SICOMP 43(4), 1486-1511, 2014. Also in FOCS 2012.
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Approximating Minimization Diagrams and Generalized Proximity Search Sariel Har-Peled and Nirman Kumar SICOMP 44(4), 944-974, 2015. Also in FOCS 2013.
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Space Exploration via Proximity Search Sariel Har-Peled and Nirman Kumar and David M. Mount and Benjamin A. Raichel DCG 56(2), 357-376, 2016. Also in SOCG 2015.
