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apadaki (at) seas.upenn.edu

Research

• Inapproximability of Maximum Diameter Clustering for Few Clusters
  with Karthik C. S., Henry Fleischmann, Kyrylo Karlov, Styopa Zharkov
  arXiv | SODA 2025
• Smaller Low-Depth Circuits for Kronecker Powers
  with Josh Alman, Yunfeng Guan
  arXiv |SODA 2023

Teaching

I was a teaching assistant for the following classes at Columbia:

• Cryptography
  (COMS 4261, Fall 2023)
• Computational Complexity
  (COMS 4236, Spring 2023)
• Real Analysis I
  (MATH 4041, Fall 2022)

Other

• Years ago, I interned as a quantitative trader at Optiver, an options market-making firm in Chicago.
• Outside of research, I like playing soccer and tennis, going on long walks and hikes, making music, and experimenting with wordplay.