Jeff Edmonds

Jeff Edmonds
Born	August 10, 1963 (1963-08-10) (age 62)
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Computer Science
Institutions	York University
Doctoral advisor	Faith Ellen

Jeff Edmonds is a Canadian and American mathematician and computer scientist specializing in computational complexity theory.

Academic career

Edmonds received his Bachelors at Waterloo in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1993 at University of Toronto. His thesis proved lower bounds on time-space tradeoffs. He did his post-doctorate work at the ICSI in Berkeley on secure data transmission over networks for multi-media applications. He joined Department of EECS at Lassonde School of Engineering York University in 1995.

Research

Edmonds' research interests include complexity theory, scheduling, proof systems, probability theory, combinatorics and machine learning.

Personal life

Edmonds is the son of another mathematician, Jack Edmonds.

See also

• Edmonds–Pruhs protocol

Selected publications

• Edmonds, Jeff (2024), How to Think About Algorithms (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781009302180

• Chattopadhyay, Arkadev; Edmonds, Jeff; Ellen, Faith; Pitassi, Toniann (2016), "Upper and Lower Bounds on the Power of Advice", SIAM Journal on Computing, 45 (4): 1412–1432, doi:10.1137/15M1031862.

• Cook, Stephen; Edmonds, Jeff; Medabalimi, Venkatesh; Pitassi, Toniann (2016), "Lower Bounds for Nondeterministic Semantic Read-Once Branching Programs", International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming: 36:1–6:13, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.36.

• Edmonds, Jeff; Pruhs, Kirk (2012), "Scalably scheduling processes with arbitrary speedup curves (Better Scheduling in the Dark)", ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 8 (3): 28:1–28:10, doi:10.1145/2229163.2229172.

• Edmonds, Jeff; Pruhs, Kirk (2011), "Cake cutting really is not a piece of cake", ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 7 (4): 51:1–51:12, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.146.1536, doi:10.1145/2000807.2000819.

• Leung, Chan; Edmonds, Jeff; Pruhs, Kirk (2011), "Speed Scaling of Processes with Arbitrary Speedup Curves on a Multiprocessor", Theory of Computing Systems, 49 (4): 817–833, doi:10.1007/s00224-011-9349-0.

• Edmonds, Jeff; Sidiropoulos, Anastasios; Zouzias, Anastasios (2010), "Inapproximability for Planar Embedding Problems", Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, pp. 222–235, doi:10.1137/1.9781611973075.20, ISBN 978-0-89871-701-3.

• Edmonds, Jeff; Impagliazzo, Russell; Rudich, Steven; Sgall, Jiri Sgall (2001), "Communication complexity towards lower bounds on circuit depth", Computational Complexity, 10 (3): 210–246, doi:10.1007/s00037-001-8195-x.

• Edmonds, Jeff; Poon, Chung Keung; Achlioptas, Dimitris (1999), "Tight Lower Bounds for st-Connectivity on the NNJAG Model", SIAM Journal on Computing, 28 (6): 2257–2284, doi:10.1137/S0097539795295948.