He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University in 2013. Before joining the University of Washington, he spent one and a half years as a postdoctoral Miller fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, where his host was Umesh Vazirani. His main research includes design and analysis of algorithms, graph theory and applied probability. In the past, he has received several awards for his works on the traveling salesman problem. Julia Chuzhoy, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC)