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Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Algorithms, Algorithmic Game Theory, Network and Graph Theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Alexa Sharp, born in Ottawa on August 30th, believed for many years that she was born on the 31st. After a childhood growing up in both Canada and Indonesia, Alexa chose to attend the University of Waterloo, where she was able to mix school and “real work” in their Co-op program. After six years she received a Bachelor of Math in Computer Science and Combinatorics and Optimization, and since the degree had so many words in it, decided to keep collecting them. Some years later she received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University with a thesis on incremental algorithms, advised by Dexter Kozen. Keeping the academic streak alive, Alexa moved on to Oberlin College in Ohio, this time as a professor of Computer Science. There she stayed until 2017, when she unexpectedly decided to try her hand at software engineering at Google in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This fun-but-less-fun-than-teaching detour lasted 3 years and now you can find Alexa at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University. Alexa estimates she has run enough miles to circle the globe around the 28th parallel, and eaten enough candy to feed, but not nourish, a small nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7906,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Alexa","cu_people_last_name":"Sharp","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[12],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-7793","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-school-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor, Teaching Stream","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. Computer Science, Cornell University (2007), M.Sc. Computer Science, Cornell University (2005), B.Math Computer Science and Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo (2001)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"AlexaSharp3@cunet.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"4333","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/7793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23578,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/7793\/revisions\/23578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}