Debarati Das joins computer science and engineering
3/25/2022
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Debarati Das joined the Penn State College of Engineering as an assistant professor of computer science and engineering on Jan. 1. Das completed her doctorate in computer science at the Computer Science Institute of Charles University in Prague and earned a master’s degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Prior to joining Penn State, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Basic Algorithm Research Copenhagen, a leading center for fundamental algorithmic research in Denmark.
“My research interest lies in theoretical computer science, especially in data structures, fine grained complexity and approximation algorithms, string algorithms, graph algorithms, lower bounds and clustering algorithms,” Das said.