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The professors Hemaspaandra (Edith of RIT-CS, left; Lane of URCS, right) in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's costume warehouse
  

Lane A. Hemaspaandra

Note: Pre-marriage name = Lane A. Hemachandra.

Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627-0226
Email: ID = lane
DOMAIN = cs.rochester.edu
Phone +1-585-275-1203
Fax +1-585-273-4556

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Lane's first pointer, 1989
     
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B.S. (summa cum laude), Yale University, Computer Science and Mathematics & Physics, 1981.
M.S., Stanford University, Computer Science, 1982.
Ph.D., Cornell University, Computer Science, 1987.

Lane's interests include computational social choice theory, algorithms and complexity theory, and algorithmic game theory.

Honors:

  • Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship, 1982-1987.
  • NSF Research Initiation Award, 1988-1990.
  • NSF Presidential Young Investigator, 1989-1995.
  • Bridging Fellow (Political Science), University of Rochester, 1994.
  • JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Invitational Fellow, 2005.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2006. (Photo of Lane receiving the award from Humboldt Foundation president, Dr. Wolfgang Fruehwald, June, 2007.)
  • ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2007-... .
  • Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (University of Rochester's university-wide award for undergraduate teaching), 2012.

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