About the Author(s)

  Anupam Gupta
  Computer Science Department
  Carnegie Mellon University
  Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
  anupamg[ta]cs[td]cmu[td]edu
  
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~anupamg
  

Anupam Gupta is a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA. He grew up in Calcutta, India, went to the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur for his B.Tech. degree, and received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley under the guidance of Alistair Sinclair. He also spent two years searching for good and unknown restaurants in New York while he was ostensibly a postdoctoral researcher at Lucent Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. Anupam's interests include approximation algorithms, metric embeddings, networking, eating, and playing squash badly.

  Aravind Srinivasan
  Department of Computer Science and University of
  Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
  University of Maryland at College Park
  College Park, MD 20742, USA
  srin[ta]cs[td]umd[td]edu
  
  http://www.cs.umd.edu/~srin
  

Aravind Srinivasan is a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University under the supervision of David Shmoys, and his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His research interests are in randomized algorithms, networking, social networks, combinatorial optimization, and related areas. Aravind is a native of Chennai, India, and his "mother tongue" (native language) is Tamil.