Yanhui Zhu is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Iowa State University (graduating in Spring 2025), where he is advised by Dr. Pavan Aduri and Dr. Samik Basu. Yanhui received an M.S. in Data Science from the University of West Florida (UWF) in 2021, where his advisor was Dr. Jia Liu.

Research Areas: Theory and practice of algorithmic machine learning, including approximation algorithms and data-driven optimizations, as well as complex network analysis and data science.

His works have been published in prestigious conference proceedings and journals such as IJCAI, UAI, CIKM, ICML, and IEEE Trans. on Big Data (TBD), to name a few. He has collaborated with experts across various fields, including theoretical computer science, machine learning, medical sciences, geoscience, and environmental sciences. He is the recipient of the "2024 ISU Department of Computer Science Publication Award" from Iowa State University and the "HMCSE Graduate Students Research Grant" from the University of West Florida.  Additionally, he has consistently served as a program committee member for conferences and as a reviewer for journals.