As seen above, I am Alex Jaffe, a third-year PhD student in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. I study theoretical computer science - in particular, I'm interested in metric embeddings and structural problems in graph theory. My advisor is James Lee.
I received my B.A. in Computer Science from Berkeley in December of 2005, working at Yahoo! Research Berkeley in the first half of 2006. I like cloudy weather and indie rock bands and my girlfriend and the UW, so I currently live in Seattle. In May of 2008, I received my M.S. from UW, and am now continuing to pursue my PhD.
A. Jaffe, J. Lee, M. Moharrami, "On the Optimality of Gluing Over Scales".
In APPROX 2009.
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A. Chakrabarti, A. Jaffe, J. Lee, J. Vincent, "Embeddings, Cuts, and Flows in Topological Graphs: Lossy Invariants, Linearization, and 2-Sums".
Preliminary version in FOCS 2008. (Full version forthcoming.)
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C. Daskalakis, C. Hill, A. Jaffe, R. Mihaescu, E. Mossel, S. Rao, "Maximal Accurate Forests from Distance Matrices".
In Research in Computational Molecular Biology, 10th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2006.
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A. Jaffe, M. Naaman, T. Tassa, M. Davis, "Generating Summaries for Large Collections of Geo-Referenced Photographs".
In Proceedings of The 8th ACM SIGMM international workshop on Multimedia information retrieval, MIR 2006.
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A. Jaffe, M. Naaman, T. Tassa, M. Davis, "Generating Summaries for Large Collections of Geo-Referenced Photographs".
Poster in The Fifteenth International World-Wide Web Conference, WWW 2006.
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Contact Information:
e-mail: ajaffe AT cs DOT washington DOT edu
Mailing Address:
Alexander Jaffe
Computer Science & Engineering
185 Stevens Way AC101
Paul G. Allen Center Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350
Office Phone #: (206)543-7798