Atul Pokharel

Research

Biography

Atul Pokharel is a Doctoral Student (2nd year) in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at New York Univerity. He received his A.B. from Princeton University where he majored in Mathematics and minored in Applied and Computtional Mathematics. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT in Urban Planning. You can order his recent book, Beyond Collective Action Problems here.

Computer Science Coursework

• CPSC 535: Advanced Networking: Building an Internet Router (Yale, Graduate):
  • Spring 2024

• CPSC 584: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (Yale, Graduate):
  • Spring 2024

• CPSC 540: Advanced Databases: Database Design and Implementation (Yale, Graduate):
  • Fall 2023

• CPSC 557: Sensitive Information in a Connected World (Yale, Graduate):
  • Fall 2023

• CPSC 564: Algorithms and Society (Yale, Graduate):
  • Fall 2023

• CPSC 523: Principles of Operating Systems (Yale, Graduate):
  • Spring 2022

• CPSC 526: Building Distributed Systems (Yale, Graduate):
  • Spring 2022

• CPSC 537: Introduction to Database Systems (Yale, Graduate):
  • Fall 2021

• CS 341: Discrete Math (Princeton, Undergraduate):
• EE 206: Logic Design (Princeton, Undergraduate):
• CS 226: Algorithms (Princeton, Undergraduate):
• CS 217: Systems Programming (Princeton, Undergraduate):
• CPSC 126: Introduction to Computer Science (Princeton, Undergraduate):

Publications

1. A Case for Location-based Contact Tracing. Atul Pokharel, Robert Soulé, and Avi Silberschatz. HCMS, June 2021.