Eric Torng
Eric Torng
Associate Professor
Research Biography
Eric Torng is a member of the Digital Evolution Laboratory and a founding member of the Quantitative Biology and Modeling Initiative at Michigan State University. He serves as graduate director for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include algorithms, on-line algorithms, scheduling, computational complexity, TCAM, packet processing.
Research Interests
- computational biology
Selected Publications
- Wang, Bo; Mutka, Matt; Torng, Eric; Optimization Based Rate Allocation and Scheduling in TDMA Based Wireless Mesh Networks, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pages 147-156, 2008.
- Eric Torng and Jason McCullough, SRPT Optimally Uses Faster Machines to Minimize Flow Time, ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG), Volume 5, Issue 1, Article Number 1, 2008.
- Dehuah Hang, Eric Torng, Charles Ofria, and Thomas M. Schmidt, The effect of natural selection on the performance of maximum parsimony, Biomed Central Evolutionary Biology, 7:94, 2007
- Mark Brehob, Richard Enbody, Eric Torng, and Stephen Wagner, On-line Restricted Cache Scheduling, Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 374-383, 2001
Selected Achievements and Awards
- Michigan State University Teacher-Scholar Award, 1999
- College of Engineering Withrow Teaching Excellence Award, 1996, 2002