Yanjun Zhang

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Yanjun Zhang, a Chinese American mathematician, computer scientist, and research scientist at Sabre Inc., in the 90s assistant professor at Southern Methodist University. He received a Ph.D. on Parallel Algorithms for Combinatorial Search Problems from University of California, Berkeley in 1989 under thesis advisor Richard Karp. In 1988, Yanjun Zhang and Richard Karp presented a general method for deriving randomized parallel branch-and-bound algorithms from sequential ones. They showed that with high probability the resulting algorithms attained optimal speedup to within a constant factor for large enough problems .

=Selected Publications=

1988 ...

 * Richard Karp, Yanjun Zhang (1988). A randomized parallel branch-and-bound procedure. STOC '88
 * Richard Karp, Yanjun Zhang (1989). On parallel evaluation of game trees. SPAA '89
 * Yanjun Zhang (1989). Parallel Algorithms for Combinatorial Search Problems. Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, advisor Richard Karp

1990 ...

 * Richard Karp, Yanjun Zhang (1993). Randomized parallel algorithms for backtrack search and branch-and-bound computation. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 40, No. 3
 * Richard Karp, Yanjun Zhang (1995). Bounded branching process and and/or tree evaluation. Random Structures & Algorithms, Vol. 7, No. 2
 * Yanjun Zhang (1995). On the Optimality of Randomized Alpha-Beta Search. SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 24, No. 1
 * Yanjun Zhang (1998). The Variance of Two Game Tree Algorithms. Journal of Algorithms, Vol. 28, No. 1
 * Richard Karp, Yanjun Zhang (1998). On Parallel Evaluation of Game Trees. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 6

2000 ...

 * Yanjun Zhang, Si-Qing Zheng (2000). An Efficient Parallel VLSI Sorting Architecture. VLSI Design, Vol. 2000

=External Links=
 * Yanjun Zhang | LinkedIn
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Yanjun Zhang

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