Robert Andrews
Email: rgandre2 at illinois dot edu
Office: 3219 Siebel
I am a fifth-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
I am part of the Theory & Algorithms group, where I am fortunate to be advised by Michael A. Forbes.
I primarily work on algebraic complexity theory, but I am broadly interested in computational complexity.
Research
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Ideals, Determinants, and Straightening: Proving and Using Lower Bounds for Polynomial Ideals
(with Michael A. Forbes)
[arXiv | ECCC]
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Algebraic Hardness versus Randomness in Low Characteristic
CCC 2020
[arXiv | ECCC | CCC proceedings]
Teaching
I have been lucky to work as a teaching assistant for the following courses at UIUC.
- Fall 2021
- CS 374: Algorithms & Models of Computation
- Fall 2020¶
- CS 473: Algorithms
- Spring 2019†
- CS 374: Algorithms & Models of Computation
- Fall 2018†
- CS 374: Algorithms & Models of Computation
- Spring 2018
- CS 579: Computational Complexity
- Fall 2017
- CS 475: Formal Models of Computation
†Included on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students.
¶Recipient of the department’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant award.
Miscellaneous
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Need more RAM? Just invent time travel!
joint with Mitchell Jones and Patrick Lin
SIGBOVIK 2019 (winner of the "Most frighteningly like real research" award)
[SIGBOVIK proceedings]