Sasho Nikolov

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Aleksandar (Sasho) Nikolov is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. Sasho received his PhD from Rutgers University, where his supervisor was S. Muthukrishnan, and did a postdoc with the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond. He is a Canada Research Chair in Algorithms and Privacy, and from 2012-14 was a Simons Graduate Fellow in Computer Science.

Sasho is broadly interested in theoretical computer science and algorithms, and specifically in discrepancy theory, convex geometry, and their applications to computer science. He is also interested in sublinear and parallel algorithms for large data.

Program Visits

Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications, Spring 2019, Visiting Scientist
Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization, Fall 2017, Visiting Scientist