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Barun Chandra

University of New Haven: Faculty

University of New Haven: Barun Chandra
Barun Chandra
Title: Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor for Computer Science
College: Tagliatela College of Engineering
Dept: Electical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Phone: 203.932.7089
Fax:  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