Ming Ming Tan

Instructor

Ming Ming Tan

Instructor

Academic Appointment(s)

Administration
Department of Computer & Cyber Sciences

School of Computer and Cyber Sciences
Department of Computer & Cyber Sciences

Administration
Department of The Graduate School

  • MTAN@augusta.edu
  • UH 131F

Education

  • Ph.D., Mathematics, General Nanyang Technological Universi, 2015

  • BS, Applied Mathematics, General Nanyang Technological Universi, 2010

Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year

  • AIST 2120

    Scripting & Automation II
  • CSCI 5003

    Data Analytics Using Python

Teaching Interests

I have served as the instructor for both undergraduate (Introduction to Programming using Python, Principles of Computer Programming using C#) and graduate courses(MathematicalFoundations of Cryptography, Principles of Cryptography).
I have also served as the course developer for the course Data Analysis with Python, as part of the inaugural curriculum for the university’s new Data Science and Bridge program.
In general, I am interested in teaching courses related to Mathematics (Cryptography, Quantum) and algorithmic analysis (distributed ​computing).

Scholarship

Selected Recent Publications

  • Brief Announcement: Perfect Matching with Few Link Activations, 2025
    Conference Proceeding
  • Brief Announcement: Rise and Shine Efficiently! The Complexity of Adversarial Wake-up, 2025
    Conference Proceeding
  • Deterministic Lower Bounds for \emphk-Edge Connectivity in the Distributed Sketching Model, 2025
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Perfect Matching with Few Link Activations, 2025
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Tight Bounds on the Message Complexity of Distributed Tree Verification., 2025
    Journal Article, Academic Journal

Department Service

  • Data Science Curriculum Committee 2025 - 2025

    Role: Committee Member

University Service

  • Undergraduate Research Experience 2022 - 2023

    Role: Faculty Mentor

Professional Service

  • International Colloquium On Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO) 2024 2023 - Present

    Role: Reviewer, Conference Paper
  • Theoretical Computer Science (SIROCCO 2024's Special Issue) 2025 - 2026

    Role: Reviewer, Journal Article
  • ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Undergraduate and Masters Consortium 2025 (KDD-UMC) 2025 - 2025

    Role: Committee Member
  • ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2023 Undergraduate Consortium 2023 - 2023

    Role: Reviewer, Conference Paper
  • Distributed Computing and Intelligent Technology: 19th International Conference (ICDCIT) 2023 2023 - 2023

    Role: Reviewer, Conference Paper