Payas Rajan

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of California - Riverside, where I am advised by Dr. Ravishankar. We broadly work on problems that arise around route planning in geospatial networks.

Recent Updates

• Gave a talk at the C++ and Rust Meetup, London.
  Slides (PDF) Slides (PPTX).
• Gave a talk at Rust & Tell Berlin about implementing fast route planning algorithms in Rust (this is an extension of the !!Con talk).
  Slides.
  
• Gave a talk at !!Con 2020 about fast route planning on road networks with Contraction Hierarchies.
  Video (~10 minutes). Slides.
  
• Presented a short paper at SIGSPATIAL 2019. We proposed a new abstraction of electric vehicle movement that helps accurately estimate energy consumption over a path.
• Helped design a 3-day workshop on Data Structures and Algorithms in C++. The student version of course materials has also been published as a book.