Tian Zhang (张 添)

Email: [first name]zh [at] seas.upenn.edu

I'm a second-year PhD student in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Erik Waingarten. I received my bachelor's in computer science and statistics from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, where Thatchaphol Saranurak was my undergraduate research advisor.

Publications

• Data-Dependent LSH for the Earth Mover's Distance
  Rajesh Jayaram, Erik Waingarten, Tian Zhang
  STOC 2024 [to appear]
• Vertex Sparsifiers for Hyperedge Connectivity
  Han Jiang, Shang-En Huang, Thatchaphol Saranurak, Tian Zhang
  ESA 2022 [arXiv]

Course Service

• Teaching Assistant, CIS 3200: Introduction to Algorithms (Fall 2023) at Penn
• Grader, EECS 477: Introduction to Algorithms (Fall 2021) at UMich

Other Experiences

• I went to The University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI) in Shanghai for Spring 2021 due to the COVID pandemic.
• I was a visiting international student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for Winter and Summer 2019. I received the Excellent Visiting International Student Award from UW-Madison.
• Before UMich, I was a statistics major at Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, and then I transfered to UMich. Feel free to ask me anything about international transfer students.