Eric Vigoda

Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara


Teaching

Current Teaching: Previous year: Selected previous courses which have lecture notes:
  • CS 292A - Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, Fall 2021
  • Advanced Graduate Algorithms (Georgia Tech)
  • Videos and notes for MOOC on Intro to Graduate Algorithms for Georgia Tech's OMSCS program

  • Research

    Publication list

    Brief Bio available here

    Main research interests:
    • Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
    • Randomized algorithms
    • Phase transitions in Statistical Physics
    • Markov chains in Evolutionary Biology

    Office: HFH 2113
    Email: vigoda (at) ucsb.edu