Education
Vempala attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1997 under professor Avrim Blum.
Vempala attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1997 under professor Avrim Blum.
He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1997, he was awarded a Miller Fellowship at Berkeley. Subsequently, he was a Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Mathematics Department, until he moved to Georgia Technical in 2006.