Yi-Jun Chang
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Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, United States
Bio
CHANG Yi-Jun is an NUS Presidential Young Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. Previously, he was a junior fellow in the Institute for Theoretical Studies (ETH-ITS) at ETH Zurich. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2019. He is broadly interested in theoretical computer science, with a focus on the design and analysis of distributed, parallel, and sublinear graph algorithms. He received the best paper award and the best student paper award at PODC 2019. His doctoral dissertation received the 2020 PODC Doctoral Dissertation Award.
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