Prasad Raghavendra
Contact :

Email    :  firstname @ cs dot washington dot edu
Mobile  :  1 206 288 3807
Office   :  1 206 616 7045

Publications
I am a third year graduate student in Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington, Seattle.  My advisor is Venkatesan Guruswami. Before coming here, I got my Dual degree(Btech/Mtech) in computer science from IIT Madras.
I am currently visiting Princeton University(till June 2008)

Research Interests :  Approximation Algorithms, Hardness of Approximation, Complexity, Coding theory.

2008
Optimal Algorithms and Inapproximability Results for Every CSP?

   Prasad Raghavendra
  STOC 2008
  (Co-winner of the Best Paper award and winner of the Best Student Paper award)

 

SDP Gaps and UGC Hardness for Multiway Cut, 0-Extension and Metric Labeling

   Rajsekar Manokaran, Seffi Naor,  Prasad Raghavendra, Roy Schwartz
  STOC 2008



Constraint Satisfaction over Non Boolean Domain : Approximation Algorithms and Unique Games Hardness

   Venkatesan Guruswami, Prasad Raghavendra
  APPROX-2008, also on Electronic Colloqium on Computational Complexity ECCC TR-08-008




Beating the Random Ordering is Hard : Inapproximability of Maximum Acyclic Subgraph

   Venkatesan Guruswami, Rajsekar Manokaran, Prasad Raghavendra
  FOCS 2008


Towards Computing the Grothendieck constant

   Prasad Raghavendra, David Steurer
  Submitted


2007

A 3-Query PCP over Integers

   Venkatesan Guruswami, Prasad Raghavendra
   STOC 2007



Coarse Differentiation and Planar Multiflows

   James Lee, Prasad Raghavendra
   APPROX 2007

A Note on Yekhanin's Locally Decodable Codes

   Prasad Raghavendra
   Electronic Colloqium on Computational Complexity ECCC TR07-016



Improved Approximation Algorithms for the Spanning Star Forest Problem

   Ning Chen, Roee Engelberg, C. Thach Nguyen, Prasad Raghavendra, Atri Rudra, Gyanit Singh
   APPROX 2007



2006
Hardness of Learning Halfspaces with Noise

   Venkatesan Guruswami, Prasad Raghavendra.
   FOCS 2006


Undergraduate:
On the Optimal Communication Complexity of Multiphase Protocols for Perfect      
   Communication
  
   Kannan Srinathan, N. R. Prasad, C. Pandu Rangan
   IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE-SP) 2007


On Proactive Perfectly Secure Message Transmission
  
   Kannan Srinathan, Prasad Raghavendra, C. Pandu Rangan
   Australasian Conference on Security and Privacy (ACISP) 2007


Slides :

Introduction  to Lovasz Schriver Heirarchy                          PPT

From Sperner to Brouwer                                                     PPT