Keynote Speakers

Valerie King is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Uni- versity of Victoria. She received her PhD in computer science in 1988 from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Richard Karp, a JD degree from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1983 and an AB degree from Princeton University in mathe- matics. She held postdoctoral fellowships at University of Toronto under Faith Ellen and at Princeton under Andrew CC Yao. She held visiting professor positions at Hebrew Uni- versity, University of Copenhagen, University of Toronto, UC Berkeley, and Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris. Her industrial research experience includes Microsoft Research (Sili- con Valley Center), Compaq and HP Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, and NECI in Princeton. In addition she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Simons Institute. She served on the editorial board of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms, organized many workshops, and served on numerous technical committees and panels, including the Independent Panel on Internet Voting for Elections BC and PC Chair of STOC 2017. She is the author of over 85 refereed publications. In 2014, she received the distinction ACM Fellow for her work on randomized algorithms, especially dynamic graph algorithms and Byzantine fault tolerant distributed computing.

Manish Gupta is a Senior Director at Google DeepMind, leading teams conducting research in AI across India and Japan. Previously, Manish has led VideoKen, a video technology startup, and the research centers for Xerox and IBM in India. As a Senior Manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, Manish led the team developing system software for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer. IBM was awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation for Blue Gene by US President Barack Obama in 2009. Manish holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has co-authored about 75 papers, with more than 8,000 citations in Google Scholar (and an h-index of 47), and has been granted 19 US patents. While at IBM, Manish received two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, an Outstanding Innovation Award and the Lou Gerstner Team Award for Client Excellence. Manish is a Fellow of ACM and the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of a Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Delhi.