Yiyao Zhang
I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the Theoretical Computer Science Group at Nanjing University, advised by Prof. Yitong Yin. I earned my B.S. in Computer Science and Financial Engineering from Nanjing University in 2024.
Research Interests: sampling and counting, high-dimensional probability theory, and discrete mathematics.
Education
Nanjing University (NJU)
B.S. in Computer Science and Financial Engineering
Publications
Authors are listed alphabetically unless otherwise stated.
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Near-optimal parallel approximate counting via sampling.
SPAA 2026, to appear. arXiv
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Learning CNF formulas from uniform random solutions in the local lemma regime.
STOC 2026, to appear. arXiv
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Hyper-USS: Answering subset query over multi-attribute data stream.
SIGKDD 2023, pp. 1698-1709. Conference version
Visiting and Internship
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Research assistant hosted by Asst. Prof. Weiming Feng.
Teaching Assistantship
Advanced Algorithms (Nanjing University)
Instructors: Yitong Yin, Shi Li, Jingcheng Liu.
Awards
- Presidential Special Scholarship for Doctoral Students
- Outstanding Undergraduate Student of Nanjing University
- National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students