[1][2] Satish Rao received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 and joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999.
[3] Rao's research focuses on computational biology, graph partitioning, and single- and multi-commodity flows (maximum flow problem).
[4] Rao is an ACM Fellow (2013)[5] and won the Fulkerson Prize with Sanjeev Arora and Umesh Vazirani in 2012 for their work on improving the approximation ratio for graph separators and related problems from
[6][7] Rao teaches discrete mathematics and probability theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
[1] Satish Rao has published over 100 publications and is cited frequently.