Saad Mneimneh

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002

Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Hunter College of CUNY
695 Park Avenue HN 1090F
New York, NY 10065

my first name at hunter dot cuny dot edu

For convenience, Google

al-Khwärizmï 780 - 850 A.D. (after whom algorithms are named)

A Little Bit of History
here...

Recent Talks
A tribute to Pythagoras, a talk for undergraduate students that combines math, algorithms, and programming, York College of CUNY

RNA-RNA interaction algorithms, Workshop on Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Geometry at UNT

Some lower and upper bounds in load balancing of switches, Graduate Center of CUNY

How to waste 2/3 of the throughput of a switch, Brooklyn Poly ECE.

Load balancing in a switch and three properties: throughput, reordering, and starvation, Graduate Center of CUNY.

RNA-RNA interaction: formulation, NP-completeness, and approximations, Graduate Center of CUNY.

Research
My interests include algorithms for fast network switches, optical routing, graph problems, and biology.
Here's a list of my recent publications.

Projects
- Speedup requirements of switching algorithms for single stage crossbar switches with throughput guarantees.
- Properties of load balancing policies and their effect on Reordering, Starvation, and Throughput.
- Load balancing with unsplittable flows and application to resource management.
- Lower and upper bounds in load balancing of switches.
- Efficient algorithms for deflection routing.
- Modeling and analysis of telomere aging and telomerase.
- RNA-RNA interaction algorithms.
- Bayesian models for evolution.
- Stochastic models of low complexity sequences.
- Colored balls and bins paradigms.

Courses
CSCI 120 Introduction to Computers, Summer 2006, Spring 2007, Summer 2007, Summer 2008, Spring 2009
CSCI 132, Practical Unix programming, Fall 2008
CSCI 135 Software Design and Analysis I, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2010
CSCI 150 Discrete Mathematics, Fall 2007, Sprint 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
CSCI 415 Data Communication Networks, Spring 2006, Spring 2008
CSc 80030 Introduction to computational biology, Graduate Center, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010
CSCI 493.66 Unix tools with emphasis on string algorithms and Bioinformatics, Spring 2009
STAT 319/739 Introduction to Bayesian statistics, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012
CSCI 493.55 Honor seminar in algorithms, Fall 2010
A data structures/algorithms course I gave at SMU

My Fun Pages
www.abdelwahab.com
www.noraandsaad.com
www.prettycell.com