Resume
Academic Achievements
- Publications:
- - From Bit to Block: Decoding on Erasure Channels (with Henry Pfister and Gilles Zémor) - ISIT 2025
- - List-Decoding Capacity Implies Capacity on the q-ary Symmetric Channel (with Francisco Pernice and Mary Wootters) - STOC 2025
- - A Criterion for Decoding on the Binary Symmetric Channel (with Anup Rao) - Advances in Mathematics of Communications 2024
Research Experience
- Teaching assistant experience:
- - CSE 421: Introduction to Algorithms - Spring 2025, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Winter 2020
- - CSE 531: Computational Complexity - Spring 2022
- - CSE 431: Introduction to Theory of Computation - Spring 2021
- - CSE 521: Applied Algorithms - Winter 2021
- - CSE 311: Foundations of Computing 1 - Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
- - CSE 373: Data Structures and Algorithms - Summer 2019
- - CSE 490: Toolkit for Modern Algorithms - Winter 2019
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, University of Washington, advised by Anup Rao
Background
- Main research interests: complexity theory and coding theory. Particularly interested in understanding which structural characteristics of a code ensure reliable decoding over the symmetric and erasure channels.
Miscellany
- Contact and other links:
- - Email: osprum@cs.washington.edu
- - Google Scholar: link
- - CV: pdf