Hilary Finucane
Email: firstname.lastname@weizmann.ac.il
I am a PhD student of Itai Benjamini in the Department of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. I am interested in probability, group theory, combinatorics, theoretical computer science, and applications of these fields.
In 2011, I completed an MSc in theoretical computer science at Weizmann, under Irit Dinur. In 2009, I completed a BA in math at Harvard, where I wrote my undergraduate thesis with Michael Mitzenmacher.
Publications
Itai Benjamini, Hilary Finucane, and Romain Tessera
On the scaling limit of finite vertex transitive graphs with large diameter
Submitted.
Hilary Finucane, Ron Peled, and Yariv Yaari
A recursive construction of t-wise uniform permutations
Submitted.
Hilary Finucane
Finite Voronoi decompositions of infinite vertex transitive graphs
Submitted.
Hilary Finucane, Omer Tamuz, and Yariv Yaari
Scenery reconstruction on finite abelian groups
Submitted.
Bonnie Kirkpatrick, Yakir Reshef, Hilary Finucane, Haitao Jiang, Binhai Zhu, and Richard Karp
Comparing pedigree graphs
Journal of Computational Biology, to appear.
David Reshef*, Yakir Reshef*, Hilary Finucane, Sharon Grossman, Gilean McVean, Peter Turnbaugh, Eric Lander, Michael Mitzenmacher**, Pardis Sabeti** (*, ** these authors contributed equally)
Detecting novel associations in large datasets
Science, December 2011
Hilary Finucane and Michael Mitzenmacher
An improved analysis of the lossy difference aggregator
SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, April 2010.
Flavio Chierichetti, Hilary Finucane, Zhenming Liu, and Michael Mitzenmacher
Designing floating codes for expected performance
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, March 2010.
Hilary Finucane and Michael Mitzenmacher
Worst-case and average-case floating codes for flash memory
My undergraduate thesis, completed in April 2009.