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About

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa. Before this, I was a data scientist at Foursquare. I did my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Riverside, where I was fortunate to be advised by Silas Richelson and Amey Bhangale. My primary research interest lies in theoretical computer science, specifically in exploring pseudorandomness and its connections and applications to coding theory, cryptography, and related areas. I am also interested in computer vision and have worked on several applied ML/computer vision projects.

Assistant Professor  •  Department of Computer Science  •  University of Iowa

Selected Publications

2

Improved Bounds for Distributed Random Walks and Spanning Trees — PODC 2026

Gopal Pandurangan, Sriram Pemmaraju, Sourya Roy, Joshua Sobel
7

Gilbert and Varshamov Meet Johnson: List-Decoding Explicit Nearly-Optimal Binary Codes — FOCS 2023

Silas Richelson, Sourya Roy