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Sasha Golovnev

Associate Professor of Computer Science
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About

Sasha Golovnev is an associate professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. His research focuses on theoretical computer science, with a particular emphasis on computational complexity and algorithms.

Before joining Cornell, Golovnev was an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University, a research scientist at Columbia University and Yahoo Research, and a Rabin Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from New York University in 2017.
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Research areas
Theory of Computing
Contact
ag2759@cornell.edu
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