Yang Liu
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5103 Gates and Hillman Centers
yangpliu@cmu.edu
Department
Computer Science Department
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Biography
Yang P. Liu is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Computer Science Department. He was previously a Postdoctoral Member at the Institute for Advanced Study after receiving his PhD at Stanford University, where he was advised by Aaron Sidford. His work spans mathematics and theoretical computer science, with particular interests in graph algorithms, optimization, high-dimensional geometry, and additive combinatorics.
His research has been recognized with the A.W. Tucker Prize, the Google Ph.D. Research Fellowship, and Best (Student) Paper awards at FOCS, STOC, and ITCS.
Research Statement
I am broadly interested in mathematics and theoretical computer science, with particular interests in graph algorithms, optimization, high-dimensional geometry, and additive combinatorics.