CV (as of December 7, 2014)

I LYA R A ZE N S H TEYN
[email protected]
Research interests
Geometric algorithms, high-dimensional geometry, metric embeddings, streaming algorithms, combinatorial optimization.
Education
2012–present
2007–2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph. D. in Computer Science
Advisor: Piotr Indyk
S. M. thesis: Beyond Locality-Sensitive Hashing
(available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89862)
Lomonosov Moscow State University
M. Sc. in Mathematics
Advisors: Maxim Babenko and Alexander Shen
Thesis: Covering Shortest Paths in Undirected Graphs
Publications
Selected work: see [1], [2] and [5] below.
1. Alexandr Andoni, Robert Krauthgamer and Ilya Razenshteyn, Sketching and Embedding are Equivalent for Norms, preprint, 2014, arXiv:1411.2577.
2. Alexandr Andoni and Ilya Razenshteyn, Optimal Data-Dependent Hashing for Approximate Near
Neighbors, preprint, 2014, http://www.ilyaraz.org/optimal_lsh.pdf.
3. Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Rati Gelashvili and Ilya Razenshteyn, Restricted Isometry Property for General
p-Norms, preprint, 2014, arXiv:1407.2178.
4. Arturs Backurs, Piotr Indyk, Eric Price, Ilya Razenshteyn and David P. Woodruff, Nearly-optimal
bounds for sparse recovery in generic norms, with applications to 𝐤-median sketching, preprint, 2014.
5. Daniel Delling, Daniel Fleischman, Andrew Goldberg, Ilya Razenshteyn and Renato F. Werneck,
An Exact Combinatorial Algorithm for Minimum Graph Bisection, Mathematical Programming
Series A, to appear, 2014, http://www.ilyaraz.org/bisection.pdf.
6. Silvio Lattanzi, Stefano Leonardi, Vahab Mirrokni and Ilya Razenshteyn, Robust Hierarchical 𝐤-Center Clustering, proceedings of 6th Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS),
to appear, 2015.
7. Alexandr Andoni, Piotr Indyk, Huy L. Nguyen and Ilya Razenshteyn, Beyond Locality-Sensitive
Hashing, proceedings of 25th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2014, available
at arXiv:1306.1547.
8. Piotr Indyk and Ilya Razenshteyn, On Model-Based RIP-1 Matrices, proceedings of 40th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), 2013, arXiv:1304.3604.
9. Andrew Goldberg, Ilya Razenshteyn and Ruslan Savchenko, Separating Hierarchical and General
Hub Labelings, proceedings of 38th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), 2013, arXiv:1304.5973.
10. Daniel Delling, Andrew Goldberg, Ilya Razenshteyn and Renato F. Werneck, Graph Partitioning
with Natural Cuts, proceedings of 25th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2011, MSR-TR-2010-164.
11. Mikhail Andreev, Ilya Razenshteyn and Alexander Shen, Not Every Domain of a Plain Decompressor Contains the Domain of a Prefix-Free One, Thoretical Computer Science, 2011, arXiv:1001.442.
12. Maxim Babenko, Alexey Gusakov and Ilya Razenshteyn, Triangle-Free 2-Matchings Revisited, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications, 2010, arXiv:1003.2697.
13. Maxim Babenko, Ignat Kolesnichenko and Ilya Razenshteyn, A Linear Time Algorithm for Finding
Three Edge-Disjoint Paths in Eulerian Networks, proceedings of 36th International Conference on
Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM), 2010, arXiv:1003.3085.
Research internships
2014
2013
2011
2010
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
Mentor: Alexandr Andoni
Equivalence between sketches and embeddings for general normed spaces [1]
Optimal data-dependent hashing for the high-dimensional nearest neighbor search [2]
Google New York
Mentors: Silvio Lattanzi and Vahab Mirrokni
Universal outliers for 𝑘-center clustering [6]
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
Mentors: Andrew Goldberg and Renato Werneck
Fast exact algorithm for the minimum bisection problem [5]
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
Mentors: Andrew Goldberg and Renato Werneck
Efficient heuristic for partitioning road networks [10]
Invited Talks
• Sketching and Embedding are Equivalent for Norms: MSR/MIT reading group (December 5, 2014)
• Optimal Data-Dependent Hashing for Approximate Near Neighbors: Data Management group
seminar, Boston University (October 17, 2014)
• Beyond Locality-Sensitive Hashing: ICERM (February 21, 2014), MIT Algorithms & Complexity
Seminar (November 20, 2013), Google New York (July, 2013)
References
Piotr Indyk
Robert Krauthgamer
Alexandr Andoni
Andrew Goldberg
professor, MIT
professor, Weizmann Institute of Science
(formerly) researcher, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
(formerly) principal researcher, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley