New Building Website

W.J. Bo Brinkman
Assistant Professor

OFFICE ADDRESS:  205D Benton, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056-1601

OFFICE PHONE:(513) 529-0354

EMAIL ADDRESS: brinkmwj(at)muohio.edu

 

EDUCATION:

 

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Princeton University, 2004 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of Washington, 1995-1999

 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

 

1999-2004: Graduate Student, Princeton University
1997-1999: Teaching Assistant, University of Washington

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

1998: Instructional Aide, University of Washington
1996-1999: Application Developer, Cerner Corporation

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

 

Phi Beta Kappa

 

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS:

 

Bo Brinkman and Moses Charikar, " On the Impossibility of Dimension Reduction in L1," in The Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE Symposium on the Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), pp. 514-523, 2003, Invited to the Journal of the ACM.

Sanjeev Arora and Bo Brinkman, "A Randomized ONline Algorithm for Bandwidth Utilization," in The Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) pp. 535-539, 2002. Also to appear in the Journal of Scheduling.

 

MAJOR INTEREST AREAS:

 

Analysis of algorithms, massive data sets, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms