Tian Zhang (张 添)

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

I'm a third-year PhD student in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. I am fortunately 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

• Average-Distortion Sketching
  Yiqiao Bao, Anubhav Baweja, Nicolas Menand, Erik Waingarten, Nathan White, Tian Zhang
  [arXiv]
• Data-Dependent LSH for the Earth Mover's Distance
  Rajesh Jayaram, Erik Waingarten, Tian Zhang
  STOC 2024 [arXiv]
• 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