Professor Parinya Chalermsook
School of Computer Science
Professor of Algorithms


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School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Parinya earned his PhD at the University of Chicago in 2012. From 2013 to 2016, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, followed by eight years at Aalto University in Finland, where he served as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor. In 2025, he joined the University of Sheffield as a Professor of Algorithms.
Parinya's research explores the intersection of algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization. He has received several early-career awards for his research, including an ERC Starting Grant (2018), a Simons-Berkeley Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Fellowship (2017), and an Academy of Finland Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Fellowship (2017). To date, he has supervised six PhD graduates and hosted five postdoctoral researchers.
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Theoretical computer science
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Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
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