Professional activities

  • Co-chair (with D. Randall) of the 2006-09 DIMACS Special Focus on Discrete Random Systems.
  • DIMACS permanent member, and member of the DIMACS Book Series Chief Editorial Committee and DIMACS post-doc committee.
  • Program committee member for Analysis of Algorithms 2005, STOC 2003 (Symposium on Theory of Computing) and SAGA 2001 and 2003 (Stochastic Algorithms, Foundations [Grundlagen] and Applications).
  • Chair of 2002 and 2003 IBM Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship committees.
  • Chair of the IBM Research Algorithms and Theory Professional Interest Committee, 2000-02.
  • Co-organizer (with B. Bollobás) of the Applied Probabilistic Combinatorics special session at the 1999 AMS meeting in Charlotte NC.
  • Regular referee for conferences including FOCS (Foundations of Computer Science); STOC (Symposium on Theory of Computing); and SODA (Symposium on Discrete Algorithms).
  • Regular referee for journals including Combinatorics, Probability, and Computing; Random Structures and Algorithms; Algorithmica; Discrete Applied Mathematics; J. of Algorithms; and SIAM J. Computing.