Prasad Raghavendra

Publications

Contact :

Computer Science and Engineering

University of Washington

Box 352350,  Seattle WA 98195

 

 

Email   : firstname @ cs dot washington dot edu

Mobile  :  1 206 288 3807

Office   :  1 206 616 7045

I am a fourth 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.

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

I will be graduating in summer 2009.

CV

2009

Towards Computing the Grothendieck constant


Prasad Raghavendra, David Steurer

SODA 09

 

How to Round Any CSP

Prasad Raghavendra, David Steurer

Submitted.

 

 

List Decoding Tensor Products and Interleaved Codes.

Parikshit Gopalan, Venkatesan Guruswami, Prasad Raghavendra

STOC 2009

 

Communication Complexity of Read-Once AC0 Formulae

T.S.Jayram, Swastik Kopparty, Prasad Raghavendra

CCC 2009

 

 

Integrality Gaps for Strong SDP Relaxations of Unique Games

Prasad Raghavendra, David Stuerer

Submitted

 

Agnostic Learning of Monomials by Halfspaces is Hard

Vitaly Feldman, Venkatesan Guruswami, Prasad Raghavendra, Yi Wu

Submitted

 

 

2008

Optimal Algorithms and Inapproximability Results for Every CSP?


Prasad Raghavendra
  

(Co-winner of the Best Paper award and winner of the Best Student Paper award)

STOC 2008

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 Invited to SICOMP Special Issue.

 

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 Invited to SICOMP Special Issue

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