Emanuele Viola

Research interests

• Theoretical computer science

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, Harvard University
• BS in Computer Science, La Sapienza University — Italy

Biography

Emanuele Viola is a professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. 

Viola's main research interest is in theoretical computer science, including pseudo-randomness, cryptography, data structures, communication complexity, and circuit lower bounds. He has made fundamental contributions to the field, including solving long-standing open problems. In addition to computer scientists, his research has influenced leading researchers in mathematics and finance.

After earning his PhD in computer science from Harvard University in 2006, Viola became a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study. In 2007, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Rocco Servedio at Columbia University. Viola received the NSF CAREER Award in 2009, the Best Paper Award at the Computational Complexity Conference in 2008, and the SIAM Student Paper Prize in 2006.

Labs and groups

• Algorithms and Theory

Projects

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