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Email: ksheridan at utexas dot edu

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Kristin Sheridan

Hi! I am currently a fourth year PhD student studying theoretical computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, where I am advised by Prof. Shuchi Chawla. I am particularly interested in topics related to algorithms in graph theory and metric embeddings.

Prior to attending UT, I completed my B.S. ('20) and M.Eng. ('21) in Computer Science with Electrical Engineering at MIT. I was advised by Prof. Virginia Vassilevska-Williams and Prof. Mark Bathe for my M.Eng., and my thesis was Graph factorization and pseudofactorization with applications to hypercube embeddings.

During the summer of 2023, I worked on the high-rate delay tolerant networking (HDTN) team at NASA's Glenn Research Center, under the guidance of Dr. Robert Kassouf-Short.

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Teaching

I have served as a TA for the following courses at UT Austin: and for the following courses at MIT:

I have also acted as a reviewer for FOCS and ESA.

I also spent a portion of my undergraduate studying biological engineering, and I worked in the labs of Dr. Rahmi Oklu at the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale and Dr. Pablo Gonzalez at la PUC de Chile.