Farhad Shahrokhi

Department of Computer Science
University of North Texas
Denton Texas, 76205
phone: (office) 940-565-2805 (home)940-382-0098
e-mail: farhad@cs.unt.edu
Education

1987 Ph.D. in Mathematics with concentration on graph algorithms, Western Michigan University

Thesis: The Maximum Concurrent Flow Problem
Thesis Advisor, D.W. Matula

1983 M.S. in Computer Science, Western Michigan University

1981 M.S. in Operations Research, Western Michigan University

1976 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Aryamehr University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Areas of Expertise
Theoretical Computer Science, Combinatorial Optimization, Geometric Graph Theory and Combinatorics, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Graph Drawing

Employment History

2000- Professor (with tenure), Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas

1994-2000 Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas

1989-94 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas

1987-89 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Mexico Tech.

Research Positions
1998-1999 (8 weeks) Visiting Scientist, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Rutgers University

1988 (6 weeks) Visiting Scientist, Institute for Mathematics and its application, (IMA) University of Minnesota, 1988

1985-87 Post Doc. and Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Southern Methodist University, hosted by D. W. Matula