Meera Sitharam

Meera Sitharam

sitharam at cise dot ufl dot edu
(352) 505 1577 (OR 392 1200)

It takes all my worktime to blow my trumpet (funny video)

Dr. Sitharam received a B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She served as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bonn in 1990-1991. She joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Kent State University in 1992.
She was a visiting professor at Purdue University in 97-98, and visited DIMACS in Spring 98.
Currently she is tenured at the CISE department of University of Florida at Gainesville.

Research interests:
Research Overview (pdf file)
-Geometric constraints and its applications to:
molecular structure and interaction, virus geometry, geometric and kinematic mechanisms, solid modeling and assembly.
-Geometric and Algebraic complexity.
-Complexity (computational/descriptive/physical/biological): lower bounds, derandomization, compressibility,

information, learnability, approximability, sampling;
-Discrete modeling and algorithms.
-Competitive and game theoretic mechanisms and their applications to biology, the internet.
-Computational Geometry

Supported by grants/gifts from: past: NSF-EIA, NSF-CCF; current: NSF-DMS-NIGMS; Solidworks Corp., UF

RESEARCH	TEACHING	SERVICE
Selected Publications (some are downloadable) Recent invited talks etc.	Fa 12 Formal languages and theory of computing, COT 6315 Fall 11, Distance Geometry, Combinatorial Rigidity, and Configuration Spaces CIS6930 Fall 10 Computational Geometry, COT 5520, CIS 4930 Fall 09 DImensionality Reduction and Applications, CIS 6930 Fall 08 CIS 6930, Geometric Embeddings and Applications Spring-Fall 06 Topics course CIS 6930: A journey into: geometric constraints, rigidity, metric space embeddings and applications	Program Committees and Conferences Organized
Research Projects Students, Postdocs etc. Research Overview (pdf file)	Fall 02 Recent Advances in Complexity CIS 6930, CIS 4930
	Fall 01 Algorithms, COT 5405, CIS 4930
	Fall 00 Numerical computing, COT 4501
	SPR 99 Special topics: computational geometry, CIS 6930, Section 5608X

Our software: FRONTIER geometric constraint solver (GNU public license) About GNU freeware	Undergraduate Research	Geometry, Graphics, Vision, Visualization/Simulation (G2V2) Seminar (co-coordinator). See also Previous (G2V2) Seminar page with more information Algorithms and Theory Seminar (co-coordinator) Asha UFlorida (faculty advisor) Spicmacay-UF chapter (faculty advisor)