Home Page of Mahdi Cheraghchi

Mahdi Cheraghchi

(or "Mahdi Cheraghchi-Bashi-Astaneh" in its complete form!)

Snail mail:
Computer Science Department
Gates-Hillman Complex 7225
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15213.
USA

Email: My preferred email address is my last name (which is "cheraghchi") at gmail.com. that I also check regularly.

Welcome to my personal home page! I'm a post-doctoral researcher at the Computer Science Department of the Carnegie Mellon University, hosted by Venkat Guruswami. Here is some research-related links:

Before coming to Pittsburgh, I spent about a year as a post-doc at the University of Texas at Austin, hosted by David Zuckerman. Before that I was a PhD student of computer science at EPFL, Switzerland, where I worked as a research assistant in the Laboratory of Algorithms (ALGO) under supervision of Amin Shokrollahi.

I'm mainly interested in Theoretical Computer Science, or more specifically:

You might also be interested in:

xkcd: A webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language,
CSTheory.StackExchange: Q&A on Theoretical Computer Science research (my profile there),
Complexity Zoo: An encyclopedia of computational complexity classes,
Information Theory Wiki (covering basic results and open problem in information theory, under construction),
The Onion: America's Finest News Source,
YouTube: A series of tubes; what the internet is made of,
My favorite music,
My public key (or search on any SKS server; fingerprint: 8A3D 9194 A03B E37E 81D5 36CE 4D9A E26D DF16 A462),
and some random stuff.

The local "date" in Iran is now !! (Thanks to my old friend Mahmood for the conversion script.)

Last Updated on December 2012