Alon Efrat

Alon Efrat

Office: Room 742
Department of Computer Science
Gould-Simpson Building
The University of Arizona
Tucson AZ 85721-0077
Office: (520) 626-8047 ; Fax (520) 621-4246
Email: alon @cs.arizona.edu


I am an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Arizona. I won the NSF CAREER award (2004), to work on "Pattern Matching, Realistic Input Models and Sensor Placement. Useful Algorithms in Computational Geometry." I am on the editorial board of IJCGA and of JDA. I was a program committee member of SoCG05, SoCG13, Broadnets06, 07, 08, 09, ICC WAS ACM GIS 2007, 08, 09, 11,12, 13,14, 15, 16, 18, ALGOSENSORS 08 and 11, FOCS 09, INFOCOM 09 10 and 11, MILCOM 14,15. DRCN 15, 16, VISIGRAPP 15. 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 2022. I was the co-chair of the sensor network algorithms track of ALGOSENSORS14 and a co-organizers of the workshop on Geometric Optimization in Wireless Communication and Sensing, in conjunction with SoCG 14. TPC of the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ICDCS 2022.

Teaching
Research
Media
Students
  • Jesus Arango, (Cisco Systems)
  • Swaminathan Sankararaman (Akamai)
  • Qiyam Tung (Amazon)
Quick Links
  • We are working on ways to schedule the motion of a swarm of UAV sweeping terrains looking for moving targets. See the demos here and here, and read the papers here and here.
  • Qiyam Tung created a great youtube clip presenting some of our work on context-driven text expansion and its applications to the educational video browsing SLIC project.
  • Check our Codpon Project in Brazil.
  • Javad Taheri wrote cool applets for basestation location problems (here).