Qilin Ye
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I am an incoming Computer Science Ph.D. student at Stanford University, starting in Fall 2026. I’m broadly interested in theoretical computer science, especially approximation algorithms and algorithmic game theory.
Previously, I earned my degrees at the University of Southern California and Duke University, where I had the great fortune to be advised by Robin Jia (USC), Vatsal Sharan (USC), and Kamesh Munagala (Duke).
In 2020, I joined USC Thornton School of Music as an undergraduate piano major studying with Dr. Lucinda Carver, but later switched tracks (sorry Dr. Carver…). From 2020 to 2024, I obtained a minor in piano performance, a B.S. in Mathematics, a B.S. in Computer Science, and an M.S. in Applied Mathematics.
I then spent two amazing years at Duke, where I completed my second M.S. in Computer Science and wrote my thesis under the supervision of Professor Kamesh Munagala.
I can be reached at qilin.ye@stanford.edu.
For lecture notes I’ve taken at USC or at Duke, visit here.
Publications
(Most papers in theory venues have alphabetical author ordering)
Cutting Down the Tower: Single-Exponential Envy-Free Cake Cuttingwith Yannan Bai.
Working paper.
Deliberation via Matchingwith Kamesh Munagala and Ian Zhang.
EC'26 || link
Transformers Provably Learn Algorithmic Solutions for Graph Connectivity, But Only with the Right Datawith Deqing Fu, Robin Jia, Vatsal Sharan.
ICML'26 || link