About
I'm a fourth year PhD student in the theory group at the University of Toronto, currently under the supervision of Sushant Sachdeva. I completed my undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore, where I studied mathematics and computer science. My research interests are primarily in spectral graph theory and continuous optimization.
Previously, I was a quantitative trading intern at Jane Street Capital.
I am current visiting the Simons Institute at the University of California, Berkeley for Fall 2023.
Publications
Faster Algorithms for Separable Linear Programs
Sally Dong, Gramoz Goranci, Lawrence Li, Sushant Sachdeva, Guanghao Ye (SODA 2024)
A New Approach To Estimating Effective Resistances and Counting Spanning Trees in Expander Graphs
Lawrence Li, Sushant Sachdeva
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2023)
How Fast Can You Update Your MST? (Dynamic Algorithms For Cluster Computing)
Seth Gilbert, Lawrence Li
ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2020)
Other
I like puzzles and various games. I am currently very much so enjoying dominion, where I play in a league.
I also occasionally join competitive programming contests on codeforces, or post on my blog.