Akash Gopinath Rao

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Washington State University advised by Dr. Ananth Kalyanaraman and Dr. Thomas Gilray. My current research focus is on the parallelization of combinatorial graph algorithms, borrowing ideas from theoretical computer science and applied mathematics to engineer usable, high performance solutions for real-world problems. I am also interested in Algorithms with Predictions and the interpretability of Artifical Intelligence.

Previously, I was fortunate enough to have worked with Dr. Christopher Musco on block Krylov methods as a part of my master’s thesis at New York University. Before NYU, I was a senior software engineer at Samsung Research Institute Bangalore and I studied computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka. Outside of research, I am currently organizing a bi-weekly Computer Science Graduate Research seminar here at WSU.