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I love to climb. The past 2 years, I’ve been focusing on bouldering and have found such a great community within it.
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I’m vegan. I love to bake, cook, and drink matcha lattes.
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In a prior life, I ran a lot. I still run sometimes with my menace of a dog. At UW, I made a lot of friends and ran a lot with Race Condition Running.
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I completed my 200 RYT in the summer of 2019. I taught yoga classes at UW for a year or so.
Contact:
sam.elli.davies [at] gmail.com
About
I'm a researcher in theoretical CS. I primarily work on (offline and online) algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. In particular, I tend to like scheduling and clustering problems. Much of my work the past several years has focused on models that go beyond worst-case analysis.I was a research scientist in EECS at UC Berkeley for 3 years until fall 2026. Before coming to Berkeley, I was a post-doc in the theory group at Northwestern for 2 years. In June 2021, I graduated with my Ph.D. in math from the University of Washington, where I worked between the Department of Mathematics and the theory group in the Allen School. I was advised by Thomas Rothvoss.
Papers
Personal, but work related
Current and Past Obsessions
Inclusivity & Engagement
- I was a mentor with the Washington Directed Reading Program during the following quarters: Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2021. I lead projects with undergraduates outside of the WDRP during the Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 quarters.
- I co-taught the course Math in Society to an amazing groups of people during the Summer of 2018 through FEPPS. FEPPS provides college education for incarcerated women, trans-identifying, and gender nonconforming people in Washington. I have tutored and done other work through FEPPS, as well.