Academic

Moses Charikar

Indian-American computer scientist

Life: 2000 – present
Born: 2000
Nationality: India

Moses Samson Charikar is an Indian-American computer scientist who works as a professor at Stanford University. He was previously a professor at Princeton University. The topics of his research include approximation algorithms, streaming algorithms, and metric embeddings. He is known for the creation of the SimHash algorithm used by Google for near duplicate detection.