Homepage of Siavosh Benabbas

Siavosh Benabbas
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
10 King's College Rd.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
Email: My first name AT cs DOT toronto DOT edu
Phone: 416-978-4236

I am a PhD candidate under supervision of Toniann Pitassi at Department of Computer Science of University of Toronto. I am interested in theoretical computer science.

Research Interests

Publications

Better Balance by Being Biased: A 0.8776-Approximation for Max Bisection, with Per Austrin and Konstantinos Georgiou. in preparation [draft] [bibtex]

Efficient Sum-Based Hierarchical Smoothing Under \ell_1-Norm, with Hyun Chul Lee, Joel Oren and Yuli Ye. in preparation. [draft] [bibtex]

Tight Integrality gap for Sherali-Adams SDPs for Vertex Cover, with Siu On Chan, Konstantinos Georgiou and Avner Magen. in FSTTCS 2011. [conference version] [draft full version] [bibtex]

SDP Gaps from Pairwise Independence, with Konstantinos Georgiou, Avner Magen and Madhur Tulsiani. to appear in Theory of Computing [draft]

Verifiable Delegation of Computation over Large Datasets, with Rosario Gennaro and Yevgeniy Vahlis. in CRYPTO 2011. [draft full version] [publisher's site] [bibtex]

Extending SDP Integrality Gaps to Sherali-Adams with Applications to Quadratic Programming and MaxCutGain, with Avner Magen in IPCO2010.
[publisher's site] [bibtex]

On Quadratic Threshold CSPs, with Per Austrin and Avner Magen in LATIN2010. [publisher's site] [bibtex]

Education

Teaching

Other stuff