Sashka Davis

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0114
Email: sdavis[at]cs[dot]ucsd[dot]edu

I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a member of the Theory Lab. My advisor is Prof. Russell Impagliazzo.


Interests:

Algorithms design, optimization, online computation.


Publications:

1.      Josh Buresh-Oppenheim, Sashka Davis and Russell Impagliazzo

A Stronger Model for Dynamic Programming Algorithms

In preparation

 

2.      Josh Buresh-Oppenheim, Sashka Davis and Russell Impagliazzo

A General Formal Model for Backtracking and Dynamic Programming Algorithms

In preparation

 

3.      Sashka Davis and Russell Impagliazzo

Models of Greedy Algorithms for Graph Optimization Problem

Accepted to Algorithmica 2007

 

4.      Sashka Davis

Evaluating Algorithmic Design Paradigms

Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2006

(abstract) (proceedings version pdf) (presentation ppt)

 

5.      Sashka Davis, Jeff Edmonds and Russell Impagliazzo

Online Algorithms To Minimize Resource Reallocations and Network Communication

Proceedings of the 2006 Approx Conference

(abstract) (full version pdf) (presentation ppt)

 

6.      Sashka Davis and Russell Impagliazzo

Models of Greedy Algorithms for Graph Optimization Problem

Proceedings of the 2004 SIAM SODA

(abstract) (proceedings version pdf) (presentation ppt)

 

7.      Sashka Davis

Hu-Tucker Algorithm for Building Optimal Alphabetic Binary Search Trees

Technical Report RIT-99-019, Computer Science Dept., Rochester Institute of Technology, 1999

(abstract) (full version pdf)


 

Other papers and presentations:

1.      Sashka Davis

Priority Algorithms

Research Exam 2003(paper pdf), (presentation ppt)

 

3.      Sashka Davis, Zig-Zag Expanders

STAR Seminar 2005 (presentation ppt)

 

4.      Sashka Davis,

Online Algorithms To Minimize Resource Reallocations and Network Communication

STAR Seminar 2006 (presentation ppt)