| S. Muthukrishnan | |
| Fields: | Computer science |
| Workplaces: | Amazon (company) |
| Alma Mater: | New York University, PhD (1994) |
| Thesis Title: | Searching for Strings and Searching in Presence of Lies |
| Thesis Year: | 1994 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Krishna Palem and Joel Spencer |
S. ("Muthu") Muthukrishnan is a computer scientist of Indian origin, known for his work in streaming algorithms, auction design, and pattern matching. He is vice president of sponsored products, Amazon (company) Advertising.[1]
Previously, he was a professor of computer science at Rutgers University.[2]
Muthukrishnan obtained his Ph.D. in 1994 New York University under the supervision of Krishna Palem and Joel Spencer.
Muthukrishnan was general chair of the 1st ACM Conference on Online Social Networks.[3] He was conference chair of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in 2005[4] and co-chair of the 15th Annual Combinatorial Pattern Matching Symposium (CPM) in 2004.[5] He was the organizer of the Big Data Program at the Simons Center for Theoretical Computer Science.[6]
Muthukrishnan was inducted as an ACM Fellow in 2010 "For contributions to efficient algorithms for string matching, data streams, and internet ad auctions".[7] He received the 2014 Imre Simon Test-of-Time Award at the LATIN Conference.[8]