Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
Daniel Lokshtanov
Daniel Lokshtanov is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of California Santa Barbara, before which he was a Professor at the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen. He received his PhD in Computer Science (2009), from the University of Bergen. He spent two years (2010- 2012) as a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California at San Diego.
His research interests span a wide area of algorithms, and he has made several fundamental contributions in the areas of exact exponential algorithms, parameterized and fine-grained algorithms and approximation algorithms. He has been awarded the Meltzer Prize for Young Researchers for his work at the University of Bergen. He is a recipient of the Bergen Research Foundation young researcher grant and of an ERC starting grant on parameterized algorithms. He is a co-author of two recently published texts — Kernelization (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Parameterized Algorithms (Springer, 2015).
