Ashoka University
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Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Ashoka University
PhD, IIT Gandhinagar
Akash Pareek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Ashoka University. His research interests lie in theoretical computer science, with a focus on data structures, online algorithms, clustering, and algorithms with predictions.
Before joining Ashoka University, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and a Walmart–KIAC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, where he was advised by Manoj Gupta.
Improved Pattern-Avoidance Bounds for Greedy BSTs via Matrix Decomposition (SODA’23)
P. Chalermsook, M. Gupta, W. Jiamjitrak, N. Obscura Acosta, A. Pareek and S. Yingchareonthawornchai
The Group Access Bounds for Binary Search Trees (ICALP’24)
P. Chalermsook, M. Gupta, W. Jiamjitrak, A. Pareek and S. Yingchareonthawornchai
A Simple PTAS for Weighted k-means and Sensor Coverage (OLA’26)
A. Pareek and S. Shit
Ads That Stick: Near-Optimal Ad Optimization through Psychological Behavior Models (ICLR’26)
K. Gopal, A. Pareek, A. Khan and A. Agarwal
Counting Patterns in Degenerate Graphs in Constant Space (MFCS’26)
B. Komarath, A.Kumar and A. Pareek
Google Research India Travel Grant 2023
ACM Travel Grant 2024
Walmart Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025
Dynamic Optimality (Advance Data Structures) (IISc)
Learning Augmented Algorithms (IISc)
