Yanhui Zhu
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Iowa State University, where I am very fortunate to be advised by Dr. Pavan Aduri and Dr. Samik Basu. Prior to that, I received an M.S. in Data Science from the University of West Florida (UWF), where my advisor was Dr. Jia Liu.
Research Areas: Algorithms, Machine Learning Optimizations (esp., discrete/combinatorial optimization), Complex Networks Analysis, and Data Science.
News
🏆 [April 2024] Received the "2024 ISU Department of Computer Science Publication Award".
📄 [April 2024] One paper accepted to IJCAI 2024.
🗣️ [Mar 2024] Invited graduate seminar, Dept. Math & Stats, University of West Florida.
📄 [Dec 2023] One paper accepted to IEEE Trans. on Big Data.
🗣️ [Aug 2023] Attended and present at UAI 2023, Pittsburge, PA.
📄 [May 2023] Two papers accepted to UAI 2023.
🎤 [Feb 2022] Gave a talk at MAA Florida section and FTYCMA, Feb. 18th-19th (Online).
🏆 [Feb 2021] Nominated as the "Excellent Graduate Student", University of West Florida.
🎤 [Feb 2020] Gave a talk at MAA Florida section and FTYCMA, Feb. 22nd-23rd, in Pensacola, FL.
Contributive Talks
"SCOREH+: A High-Order Node Proximity Spectral Clustering on Ratios-of-Eigenvectors", MAA-Florida Section and FTYCMA, Feb. 19th, 2022.
"Spectral Methods for Detecting Communities in Complex networks”, MAA-Florida Section and FTYCMA, Feb. 21st, 2020.
Honors and Grants
2024 ISU Department of Computer Science Publication Award, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, April 2024.
HMCSE Scholarship, University of West Florida, Year 2020 - 2021.
HMCSE Graduate Students Research Grant (P.I.), University of West Florida, Nov. 2019
John Pace C. Scholarship, University of West Florida, Fall 2019 - Summer 2020.
Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation, graduated with highest honor, Jun. 2019.
First-Class Scholarship (1/51), Years 2017 & 2016