I am Yo, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Utah. I am working with Dr. Blair D. Sullivan as a member of the Theory in Practice research group. My research interests include parameterized algorithms and structural graph theory (and functional programming for fun).
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9847-4890
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Papers
- (Preprint) Graph Inspection for Robotic Motion Planning: Do Arithmetic Circuits Help?, 2024
- Leveraging Fixed-Parameter Tractability for Robot Inspection Planning, WAFR 2024
- Preprocessing to Reduce the Search Space for Odd Cycle Transversal, IPEC 2024
- An Exponentially Smaller Kernel for Exact Weighted Clique Decomposition, ACDA 2023
- Parameterized Complexity of Maximum Happy Set and Densest k-Subgraph, IPEC 2022
- Minimizing Congestion for Balanced Dominators, KDD 2022
- (Preprint) Meta-analysis of metagenomes via machine learning and assembly graphs reveals strain switches in Crohn’s disease, 2022
- An International Research Comparative Study of the Degree of Cooperation between disciplines within mathematics and mathematical sciences, Behaviormetrika, 2017
Activities
- ICPC Rocky Mountain Regional Judge, 2023-2024
- Czech Summer School on Discrete Mathematics, 2024
- PACE 2023 Twin-width (Exact track), 1st place & Theory Award, 2023
- AMS MRC Hypernets Workshop, 2022
- PACE 2022 Directed Feedback Set Challenge (Exact track), 8th place, 2022
- PACE 2021 Cluster Editing Challenge (Exact track), 6th place, 2021
- ICPC North America Championship, participant, 2020
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah, 2020-2024
- B.S. in Computer Science, NC State University, 2017-2020
Major Conference Talks
- The International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR 2024), 2024
- The International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2023), 2023
- Dagstuhl Seminar 23331: Recent Trends in Graph Decomposition, 2023
- SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA23) (poster), 2023
- Joint Math Meetings (JMM 2023), 2023
- SIAM Workshop on Network Science (NS22), 2022
- The International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2022), 2022
- 28th ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2022), 2022
- International IBM Cloud Academy Conference, 2018
- ISM High Performance Computing Conference, 2015
- Scala Days San Francisco, 2015
Non-academic Websites
Photo taken in 2018