CATS-May-13-2013
From Theory
Title[edit]
Network Diffusion & Node-Weighted Steiner Trees
Speaker[edit]
Evdokia Nikolova is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science & Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. Previously she was a postdoctoral associate in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. She graduated with a BA in Applied Mathematics with Economics from Harvard University, MS in Mathematics from Cambridge University (U.K.) and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. She is interested in risk analysis from an algorithmic perspective arising in stochastic optimization, networks, economics and complex systems. She has worked on applications to transportation and is also interested in energy and other domains where her work may apply.
