Nikhil Bansal

About me

Nikhil Bansal

Research Staff Member


Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)


I am at the T.J. Watson Research Center of IBM Corporation, where I manage the Algorithms group, which is in the Optimization Center, which is in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department.

I received my B.Tech in 1999 from IIT (Indian Institue of Technology) , Bombay. I completed my Ph.D. in 2003 from Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Computer Science.
My PhD advisor was Avrim Blum and my thesis was titled Algorithms for Flow Time Scheduling.

Research Interests: Approximation and Online Algorithms, especially applied to scheduling, routing and graph problems. I am also interested in Combinatorial Optimization, Queueing Theory and Algorithms in general.


I can be reached at:
Email: firstname at us dot ibm dot com
Phone: 1 914 945 1873


Last updated 6 Nov 2008

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