Barun Chandra


Faculty Member
Barun Chandra
Title:

Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor for Computer Science

College: Tagliatela College of Engineering
Dept: Electical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science

Phone:

Fax: 

203.932.7089

203.931.6091

Email: bchandra@newhaven.edu

Office:

Buckman, B-244

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Chicago

  • M.S. in Computer Science, University of Rochester

  • M.S. in Mathematics, Colorado State University

  • B.S. in Mathematics, St. Stephens College

Published Books and Articles:

  • B. Chandra and M. Halldorsson, ``Greedy Local Improvement and Weighted Set Packing Approximation,'' in Journal of Algorithms 39, 2001, pages 223-240.

  • B. Chandra and M. Halldorsson, ``Approximation Algorithms for Dispersion Problems,'' in Journal of Algorithms 38, 2001, pages 438-465.

  • B. Chandra, H. Karloff and C. Tovey, ``New Results on the Old k-opt Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem,'' in SIAM Journal on Computing, volume 28, Number 6, 1999 , pages 1998-2029.

  • B. Chandra, G. Das, G. Narasimhan and J. Soares, ``New Sparseness Results on Graph Spanners,'' in International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, volume 5, Numbers 1 and 2,1995 , pages 125-144

  • B. Chandra and S. Vishwanathan, ``Constructing Reliable Communication Networks of Small Weight Online,'' in Journal of Algorithms 18, 1995, pages159-175.

  • B. Chandra, ``Constructing Sparse Spanners for Most Graphs in Higher Dimensions,'' in Information Processing Letters 51, 1994, pages 289-294.

  • B. Chandra, ``Does Randomization Help in On-Line Bin Packing ?'', in Information Processing Letters 43, 1992, pages 15-19.

Courses taught:

  • CS 166 Discrete Mathematics for Computing

  • CS 215 Introduction to Databases

  • CS 226 Data Structures Using Collections

  • CS 320 Computing Theory

  • CS 326 Data Structures and Algorithms

  • CS 622 Database Systems

  • CS 622B Advanced Database Systems

  • CS 632 Algorithm Design and Analysis

  • CS 634 Cryptography and Data Security

  • CS 644 Operating Systems

 

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