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Abraham Flaxman

Abraham Flaxman, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. He is the primary architect of a software tool known as DisMod III that IHME is using to estimate the Global Burden of Disease. Dr. Flaxman and other researchers use the tool to fill in gaps in incomplete data on stroke, malaria, depression, and other diseases from government records and surveys and to correct for inconsistencies.

Prior to being named assistant professor, Dr. Flaxman was a Post-Graduate Fellow at IHME. He previously was a post-doctoral fellow at Microsoft Research.

Originally from Evanston, IL, Dr. Flaxman earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006. 

Selected Publications:

1. Flaxman AD.  A spectral technique for random satisfiable 3CNF formulas. Random Structures and Algorithms. 2008; 32(4):519-534.
2. Yu H, Kaminsky M, Gibbons PB, Flaxman AD. Defending against Sybil attacks via social networks.  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 2008; 16(3):576-589.
3. Andersen R, Borgs C, Chayes J, Feige U, Flaxman AD, Kalai A, Mirrokni V, Tennenholtz M.  Trust-based recommendation systems: an axiomatic approach. Proc. of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web. 2008; 199-208.
4. Flaxman AD, Frieze AM, Vera J.  A geometric preferential attachment model of networks II.  Internet Mathematics. 2007; 4(1):87-111.
5. Flaxman AD, Vera J.  Bias reduction in traceroute sampling: towards a more accurate map of the Internet.  Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph  (WAW). 2007; 1-15.
6. Flaxman AD, Hoory S. Maximum matchings in regular graphs of high girth. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. 2007; 14(1):N1.
7. Flaxman AD.  Expansion and lack thereof in perturbed random graphs. Internet Mathematics. 2007; 4(2-3):131-147.

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