Anna Gal
Professor
Anna Gal is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and at Princeton University. Her main research area is computational complexity theory. Her research interests include circuit complexity, communication complexity, fault tolerant computation and combinatorics. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. She received the Machtey Award for Best Student Paper at the 1991 IEEE FOCS conference, and the EATCS Best Paper Award at Track A of ICALP 2003.
Research
Research Areas:
Research Interests:
- Computational complexity
- Communication complexity
- Coding theory
- Algorithms
- Combinatorics
Select Publications
. 2013. “Tight bounds on computing error-correcting codes by bounded-depth circuits with arbitrary gates”.
. 2013. “Hadamard tensors and lower bounds on multiparty communication complexity”.
. 2012. “Three query locally decodable codes with higher correctness require exponential length”.
. 2010. “Lower bounds on streaming algorithms for approximating the length of the longest increasing subsequence”.
. 2007. “The cell probe complexity of succinct data structures”.
Awards & Honors
- 2001 - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
- 1999 - NSF CAREER Award
- 2003 - EATCS Best Paper Award, ICALP
- 1991 - Machtey Award for Best Student Paper, IEEE FOCS