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Past Member

Richard Ryan Williams

Affiliation

Mathematics

Field of study

Theoretical Computer Science
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Many computational problems seem to require exhaustive search, the examination of every possible candidate solution, in order to solve them. Richard Williams will work on discovering more efficient algorithms for such problems, as well as new limitations on how well algorithms can solve these difficult problems.

Visits

von Neumann Fellow
School of Mathematics
Fall
Member
School of Mathematics

Degrees

Carnegie Mellon
Ph.D.
2007
Cornell University
M.Eng.
2002

Honors

2024
Goedel Prize

Appointments

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017–2025
Professor
Stanford University
2011–2016
Assistant Professor
IBM Almaden Research Center
2009–2011
Joseph Raviv Fellow