About Me

I (Naren Sarayu Manoj) received my PhD from the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, a philanthropically endowed CS research institution located on the University of Chicago campus with close ties to UChicago computer science. I was fortunate to be advised by Professors Avrim Blum and Yury Makarychev. From 2021-2024, I was generously supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

During summer 2023, I was a visiting student at EPFL hosted by Professor Michael Kapralov.

I graduated with my BS from the UT Austin computer science department in 2018. I spent the following year interning at several companies in New York and the Bay Area.

Research Interests

I enjoy studying problems in the algorithmic aspects of optimization, machine learning, and data science. To this end, I have thought about adversarial robustness in machine learning, sketching algorithms, and problems in query models of computation.