Alexandra Kolla

Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Alexandra Kolla is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at CU Boulder. Before joining CU Boulder, she was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Umesh Vazirani. Her interests lie in theoretical computer science and, more specifically, spectral graph theory and convex optimization.

Program Visits

Geometry of Polynomials, Spring 2019, Visiting Scientist
Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization, Fall 2017, Visiting Scientist
Algorithmic Spectral Graph Theory, Fall 2014, Visiting Scientist
Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity, Spring 2014, Research Fellow
Real Analysis in Computer Science, Fall 2013, Research Fellow