Zeyu Guo

Research

• Random Reed–Solomon Codes Achieve the Half-Singleton Bound for Insertions and Deletions over Linear-Sized Alphabets
  Roni Con, Zeyu Guo, Ray Li, and Zihan Zhang
  Manuscript. Also available on arXiv.
• Hilbert Functions and Low-Degree Randomness Extractors
  Alexander Golovnev, Zeyu Guo, Pooya Hatami, Satyajeet Nagargoje, and Chao Yan
  To appear in RANDOM 2024. Also available on ECCC and arXiv.
• Optimal Pseudorandom Generators for Low-Degree Polynomials Over Moderately Large Fields
  Ashish Dwivedi, Zeyu Guo, and Ben Lee Volk
  To appear in RANDOM 2024. Also available on ECCC and arXiv.
• Random Gabidulin Codes Achieve List Decoding Capacity in the Rank Metric
  Zeyu Guo, Chaoping Xing, Chen Yuan, and Zihan Zhang
  To appear in FOCS 2024. Also available on arXiv.
• Randomly Punctured Reed–Solomon Codes Achieve the List Decoding Capacity over Polynomial-Size Alphabets
  Zeyu Guo and Zihan Zhang
  Proceedings of the 64th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2023. Also available on arXiv.
• Extractors for Images of Varieties
  Zeyu Guo, Ben Lee Volk, Akhil Jalan, and David Zuckerman
  Proceedings of the 55th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2023. Also available on ECCC and arXiv.
• Fast Multivariate Multipoint Evaluation Over All Finite Fields
  Vishwas Bhargava, Sumanta Ghosh, Zeyu Guo, Mrinal Kumar, and Chris Umans
  Proceedings of the 63rd Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2022. Also available on ECCC and arXiv. Journal version in the Journal of the ACM, 2024.
• Improved List-Decodability and List-Recoverability of Reed–Solomon Codes via Tree Packings
  Zeyu Guo, Ray Li, Chong Shangguan, Itzhak Tamo, and Mary Wootters
  Proceedings of the 62nd Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2021. Journal version in SIAM Journal on Computing, 2024.
• Variety Evasive Subspace Families
  Zeyu Guo
  Journal version in computational complexity, 2024. A previous version appears in Proceedings of the 36th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC), 2021. Also available on ECCC and arXiv.
• Efficient List-Decoding with Constant Alphabet and List Sizes
  Zeyu Guo and Noga Ron-Zewi
  Proceedings of the 53rd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2021. Also available on ECCC and arXiv. Journal version in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022.
• Factoring Polynomials over Finite Fields with Linear Galois Groups: An Additive Combinatorics Approach
  Zeyu Guo
  Proceedings of the 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), 2020. Also available on arXiv.
• Improved Explicit Hitting-Sets for ROABPs
  Zeyu Guo and Rohit Gurjar
  Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM), 2020.
• Derandomization from Algebraic Hardness
  Zeyu Guo, Mrinal Kumar, Ramprasad Saptharishi, and Noam Solomon
  SIAM Journal on Computing, 2022. Also available on ECCC and arXiv. An earlier version appears in Proceedings of the 60th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2019.
• Deterministic Polynomial Factoring over Finite Fields: A Uniform Approach via P-Schemes
  Zeyu Guo
  Journal of Symbolic Computation, 2020. Manuscript version.
• Algebraic Dependencies and PSPACE Algorithms in Approximative Complexity
  Zeyu Guo, Nitin Saxena, and Amit Sinhababu
  Proceedings of 33rd Computational Complexity Conference (CCC), 2018. Journal version invited to and published in the CCC 2018 special issue of Theory of Computing. Also available on ECCC and arXiv.
• Algebraic Problems Equivalent to Beating Exponent 3/2 for Polynomial Factorization over Finite Fields
  Zeyu Guo, Anand Kumar Narayanan, and Chris Umans
  Proceedings of the 41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), 2016.
• Gossip vs. Markov Chains, and Randomness-Efficient Rumor Spreading
  Zeyu Guo and He Sun
  Proceedings of the 26th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2015. Full version on arXiv.
• Randomness-Efficient Curve Samplers
  Zeyu Guo
  Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM), 2013. Also available on ECCC.
• Minimum Manhattan Network is NP-Complete
  Francis Y. L. Chin, Zeyu Guo, and He Sun
  Proceedings of the 25th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG), 2009. Journal version in Discrete and Computational Geometry, 2011.

Teaching

• CSE 2331 – Foundations II: Data Structures and Algorithms. Autumn 2024.
• CSE 2331 – Foundations II: Data Structures and Algorithms. Autumn 2023.
• CSE 5329 – Algebraic Complexity Theory. Autumn 2023. Notes for the Course.
• CSE 6891 - Departmental Research Seminar (Guest Lecturer). Autumn 2023.
• CSE 6321 – Computability and Complexity. Spring 2023.

Advising

PhD students

• Zihan Zhang

Postdocs

• Ashish Dwivedi (2023.8-2024.9)

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