Torsten Suel
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BornApril 7, 1966
AwardsBest paper award of 14th ACM World Wide Web Conference (2005)
FieldsComputer Scientist
Torsten Suel | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 7, 1966 |
| Alma mater | Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany University of Texas at Austin |
| Awards | Best paper award of 14th ACM World Wide Web Conference (2005) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Scientist |
| Institutions | New York University Tandon School of Engineering |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Gregory Plaxton |
Torsten Suel is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering.[1] He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Greg Plaxton.[2] He works on the subjects of implementation of bulk synchronous parallel computation, streaming algorithms for histograms, join operations in databases, distributed algorithms for dominating sets, and web crawler algorithms. A conference paper he co-authored in 2011 introduces fast retrieval techniques that were integrated into the Apache Lucene search engine library.[3]
