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Gopal Pandurangan, Ph.D.

Moores Professor of Computer Science, IEEE Fellow

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence Algorithms

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· Ph.D. in Computer Science, Brown University

· M.S. in Computer Science. SUNY, Albany

· B.Tech. in Computer Science, IIT, Madras

Gopal Pandurangan holds a Moores professorship in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. He has held faculty positions at Purdue University and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as well as visiting positions at the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, Brown University, and Rutgers University. His research interests include theory and algorithms for distributed computing, networks, large-scale data, machine learning, data science, and quantum computing. He has over 150 refereed publications in the above areas, including premier conferences such as FOCS, STOC, SODA, PODC, SPAA, DISC, INFOCOM, and RECOMB, as well as premier journals such as JACM, SICOMP, and TALG. His research has been continuously supported by research grants from various funding agencies, including the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Defense, the Singapore Ministry of Education, and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a recipient of the University of Houston Research Excellence Award.

· IEEE Fellow

· AAIA Fellow

· University of Houston Research Excellence Award

· Best Paper Award, ACM PODC 2025

  • Gopal Pandurangan, Prabhakar Raghavan, Eli Upfal: Building Low-Diameter P2P Networks. FOCS 2001: 492-499
  • Atish Das Sarma, Stephan Holzer, Liah Kor, Amos Korman, Danupon Nanongkai, Gopal Pandurangan, David Peleg, Roger Wattenhofer: Distributed verification and hardness of distributed approximation. STOC 2011: 363-372
  • Michael Elkin, Hartmut Klauck, Danupon Nanongkai, Gopal Pandurangan: Can quantum communication speed up distributed computation? PODC 2014: 166-175 Shay Kutten, Gopal Pandurangan, David Peleg, Peter Robinson, Amitabh Trehan: On the Complexity of Universal Leader Election. J. ACM 62(1): 7:1-7:27 (2015)
  • Fabien Dufoulon, Gopal Pandurangan: Improved Byzantine Agreement under an Adaptive Adversary. PODC 2025: 173-180.