David Applegate

David Applegate

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David Applegate is a Research Scientist at Google NYC, in the Large Scale Optimization group within the Algorithms and Optimization team. He came to Google in 2016, after 16 years as a Lead Member of Technical Staff in the AT&T Shannon Research Laboratory. Prior to that he spent 4 years as an Associate Professor at Rice University and 4 years as a Member of Technical Staff in AT&T Bell Labs. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon (1991) and a B.S. in Computer Science and Math from the University of Dayton (1984).

David's primary research interests include large-scale mathematical optimization and applied algorithms and data structures. His secondary interests include networking, combinatorial puzzles, and integer sequences. He was named an AT&T Fellow (2013), and has received the Frederick W. Lanchester prize (INFORMS, 2007, for The Traveling Salesman: A Computational Study), the William R. Bennet prize (IEEE Communications Society, 2007, for “Making Routing Robust to Changing Traffic Demands: Algorithms and Evaluation”), the Beale-Orchard-Hays prize (Mathematical Optimization Society, 2000, for "On the Solution of Traveling Salesman Problems”), and the George Pólya award (MAA, 2013, for “Carryless Arithmetic Mod 10”). He also had a winning entry in the 8th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (1991).

David also enjoys rock climbing and supporting the New Jersey Devils and New York Red Bulls.

Google Publications

Previous Publications

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    Optimal Content Placement for a Large-Scale VoD System

    David Applegate, Aaron Archer, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Seungjoon Lee, K.K. Ramakrishnan

    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24 (2016), pp. 2114-2127

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    Content placement via the exponential potential function method

    David Applegate, Aaron Archer, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Seungjoon Lee, K.K. Ramakrishnan

    Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization - 16th International Conference, IPCO 2013, Springer, pp. 49-61

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    Combining predictors for recommending music: the False Positives' approach to KDD Cup track 2

    Suhrid Balakrishnan, Rensheng Wang, Carlos Eduardo Scheidegger, Angus MacLellan, Yifan Hu, Aaron Archer, Shankar Krishnan, David Applegate, Guangqin Ma, S. Tom Au

    JMLR Proceedings, vol. 18 (2012), pp. 199-213

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    Leveraging video viewing patterns for optimal content placement

    Kyung-Wook Hwang, David Applegate, Aaron Archer, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Seungjoon Lee, Vishal Misra, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Deborah F. Swayne

    NETWORKING 2012 - 11th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference Proceedings, Part II, pp. 44-58

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    Voting power and target-based site prioritization

    Steven J. Phillips, Aaron Archer, Robert L. Pressey, Desmond Torkornoo, David Applegate, David Johnson, Matthew E. Watts

    Biological Conservation, vol. 143 (2010), pp. 1989-1997