Yan Gu
Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside
Yan Gu is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department at UC Riverside. He completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in 2018 and his Bachelor’s degree at Tsinghua University in 2012. Before joining UCR, he spent one year as a postdoc at MIT. His research interest lies in designing simple and efficient algorithms with strong theoretical guarantees and good practical performance. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the Google Research Scholar Program in 2024. He has won the Best Paper Awards at PPoPP'23 and ESA'23, the Best Paper Runner-up at VLDB'23, and the Outstanding Paper Awards at SPAA'24 and SPAA'20.