Job Market

I went on the job market in early 2022, applying for faculty positions in computer science, electrical and computer engineering, operations research, and similar departments. During the application process, I found it very helpful to see application materials from previous years’ applicants, so I’m following their example by posting mine here.

If you’ve found this page while on your own job search: I hope you find these examples helpful, and good luck (and have fun?) with your search!

Application Materials

• One-page summary of research accomplishments
• Research statement
• Teaching statement
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion statement
• Cover letter (Cornell ORIE)

Selected Publications

• SOAP: One Clean Analysis of All Age-Based Scheduling Policies (SIGMETRICS 2018)
  • Presents a highly general theory of single-server scheduling, unifying and generalizing many prior results.
  • 2018 INFORMS APS Best Student Paper Prize Finalist.
• How to Schedule Near-Optimally under Real-World Constraints (preprint)
  • By way of several several case studies, shows how to adapt theoretically optimal scheduling policies to fit the practical constraints imposed by computer systems.
  • Recommended read for general audience.
• Uniform Bounds for Scheduling with Job Size Estimates (ITCS 2022)
  • Presents and analyzes the first size-based scheduling policies (e.g. a variant of SRPT) with robust performance under errors in job size estimates.
  • Recommended read for theoretical computer science audience.
• The Gittins Policy Is Nearly Optimal in the M/G/k under Extremely General Conditions (SIGMETRICS 2021)
  • The first general multiserver analysis of the Gittins policy, which is a policy designed for scheduling with limited job size information.
  • This is the most technical read on this list.