I am an assistant professor at Georgia Tech in the School of Computational Science and Engineering. Previously, I was the Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellow in Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where I was lucky to be hosted by Dr. Aydin Buluc. Before that, I graduated with my Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Charles E. Leiserson. My thesis was on “The Locality-First Strategy for Developing Efficient Multicore Algorithms.”

Research interests

• Parallel and high-performance computing
• Cache-friendly algorithms and data structures
• Software performance engineering

News

[July ‘26] Congratulations to Tiancheng Zhao, who successfully defended his MS thesis, titled “A Fast Parallel Density-Aware Algorithm for Graph Spectral Sparsification”!

[July ‘26] I have received the NSF CAREER award! Thanks to all my mentors and collaborators who made this possible.

[May ‘26] Our paper “C2: Cache-Conscious Succinct Tries with Adaptive Unary Path Compression” has been accepted to EDBT ‘27. Congratulations Kepan and Tiancheng!

[Jan. ‘26] I am teaching a seminar on High-Performance Algorithm Engineering (CSE 8803/CX 4803).

[Sep.-Dec. ‘25] I am visiting the Simons Institute as part of the program on Algorithmic Foundations for Emerging Computing Technologies.

[July ‘25] I am co-organizing the Workshop on Highlights of Parallel Computing (HOPC) at SPAA ‘25.

[June ‘25] Our paper “Improving SpGEMM Performance Through Matrix-Reordering and Cluster-wise Computation” has been accepted to SC ‘25.

[June ‘25] Our paper “Bridging Cache-Friendliness and Concurrency: A Locality-Optimized In-Memory B-Skiplist” has been accepted to ICPP ‘25.