Letong Wang
DePaul University
Assistant Professor
lwang107 [at] depaul.edu / lottiewang573 [at] gmail.com
Assistant Professor
lwang107 [at] depaul.edu / lottiewang573 [at] gmail.com
I am an assistant professor in the Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM) at DePaul University. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside (UCR), under the supervision of Yan Gu and Yihan Sun. Prior to that, I received my B.E. in Computer Science from ShanghaiTech University. In the Fall of 2025, I was fortunate to be a research fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley, for the Algorithmic Foundations for Emerging Computing Technologies program.
My research goal is to design efficient and scalable parallel graph algorithms. My research focuses both on improving theoretical bounds and providing high-performance software.
[Sep. 2025] I joined the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley as a research fellow.
[Aug. 2025] I defended my PhD dissertation, "Efficient and Scalable Parallel Graph Algorithms".
[Jul. 2025] I gave a conference talk, "Parallel Cluster-BFS and Applications to Shortest Paths," at the HOPC workshop of SPAA'25.
[May. 2025] Our work, "Parallel Contraction Hierarchies Can Be Efficient and Scalable", was nominated as the best paper final list at ICS'25
[Apr. 2025] I gave an invited talk, "Algorithm-System Co-Design for Parallel Graph Processing," at DePaul University.
[Feb. 2025] I was awarded the Research Fellowship for Fall 2025 from the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.
[Jan. 2025] I gave a conference talk, "Parallel Cluster-BFS and Applications to Shortest Paths," at ALENEX'25.
[Jan. 2025] I gave an invited talk, "Efficient and Parallel Graph Algorithms," at the SIST Youth Forum, hosted by ShanghaiTech University.
[Nov. 2024] I gave a talk, "Efficient and Parallel Graph Algorithms," at Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI).
[Nov. 2024] I gave a talk, "Efficient and Parallel Graph Algorithms," at Huawei Taylor Lab.
[Oct. 2024] I gave an invited talk, "Efficient and Parallel Graph Algorithms," at Shenzhen Institute of Computing Sciences.
[Oct. 2024] I gave an invited talk, "Efficient and Parallel Graph Algorithms," at the Young Investigators Symposium on Frontiers in Innovative Technology 2024, organized by the UM-SJTU Joint Institute.
[Oct. 2024] I was honored with the Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award (DCFA) from UCR.
Letong Wang, Xiangyun Ding, Yan Gu, Yihan Sun [paper]
Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB) 2024
Xiaojun Dong, Letong Wang, Yan Gu, Yihan Sun [paper]
Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP) 2023
Best Paper Award
Letong Wang, Xiaojun Dong, Yan Gu, Yihan Sun
The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2023
Yan Gu, Zachary Napier, Yihan Sun, Letong Wang [slides]
Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) 2022
Haomin Shi, Yao Zhang, Zilin Si, Letong Wang, Dengji Zhao[paper]
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) 2020
Yijun Yuan, Letong Wang, Sören Schwertfeger [paper]
IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) 2019