Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Field member in Applied Mathematics and CSE.

5137 Upson Hall
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone: 607-255-5395
Fax: 607-255-4428
E-mail:

Office hours: W 1:30-2:30, Th 3:00-4:00, F 10:00-11:00 or by appointment.

My research interests include:

More generally, I collaborate with engineers and scientists to simulate systems as diverse as cell phone components, peer-to-peer overlay networks, and musical instruments. This work mixes software design, mathematical analysis, and physical modeling.

For Fall 2012, I am teaching Matrix Computations (CS 6210), and Alex Vladimirsky and I are co-organizing the Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar.

Recent research talks

  1. "Communities, Spectral Clustering, and Random Walks." Statistical and Scientific Computing Seminar, University of Chicago, November 2011.
  2. "Matrix Factorizations for Computer Network Tomography." Householder Symposium on Numerical Linear Algebra, June 2011.
  3. "Resonances: Interpretation, Computation, and Perturbation." Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra: Perturbation, Performance, and Portability, July 2010.
  4. "Structure-Preserving Model Reduction for MEMS Modeling." SIAM Annual Meeting, July 2010.
  5. "Applications and Analysis of Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems." CSC Seminar, Simon Fraser University, November 2009.

Non-research talks

  1. "How to give a talk." Cornell CS Brown Bag Lunch, March 2011.

Selected Publications

  1. David S. Bindel, Sigal Oren, and Jon Kleinberg. How Bad is Forming Your Own Opinion? (full version), Proc. 52nd IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2011.
  2. David S. Bindel, James W. Demmel, and Mark Friedman. Continuation of invariant subspaces in large bifurcation problems. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 30(2): 637--656, 2008.
  3. Yan Chen, David S. Bindel, Hanhee Song, Brian Chavez, and Randy H. Katz. Algebra-based scalable overlay network monitoring: Algorithms, evaluation, and applications. ACM Transactions on Networking, 15(5): 1084--1097, 2007.
  4. David S. Bindel and Maciej Zworski. Symmetry of bound and antibound states in the semiclassical limit. Letters in Math Physics, 81(2):107--117, 2007.
  5. David S. Bindel and Sanjay Govindjee. Elastic PMLs for resonator anchor loss simulations. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 64(6):789--818, 2005.
  6. David S. Bindel, James W. Demmel, William Kahan, and Osni Marques. On computing Givens rotations reliably and efficiently. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 28(2):206--238, 2002.