Misc

Books

• Introduction to Algorithms, Fourth Edition by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein (Official 3e to 4e Transition Guide and Errata)

• Introduction to Linear Algebra by Gilbert Strang

• Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik

• Probability and Computing: Randomization and Probabilistic Techniques in Algorithms and Data Analysis by Michael Mitzenmacher and Eli Upfal

• Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser

• Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach by Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak

• Computational Complexity: A Conceptual Perspective by Oded Goldreich

• Foundations of Data Science by Avrim Blum, John Hopcroft, and Ravindran Kannan

• Mining of Massive Datasets by Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeff Ullman

• Small Summaries for Big Data by Graham Cormode and Ke Yi

• Network Science by Albert-László Barabási

• Scalable Algorithms for Data and Network Analysis by Shang-Hua Teng

• Spectral and Algebraic Graph Theory (Incomplete Draft) by Daniel A. Spielman

• Introduction to Property Testing by Oded Goldreich

Courses

• University of Washington, CSE 599s: Modern Spectral Graph Theory by Shayan Oveis Gharan

• Stanford University, CS359G: Graph Partitioning and Expanders by Luca Trevisan

• YouTube, Essence of Linear Algebra by 3Blue1Brown

Blogs

• Computational Complexity by Lance Fortnow

• Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP by Richard B. Lipton and Kenneth Regan

• In theory by Luca Trevisan

• Property Testing Review by Clément Canonne, Akash Kumar, C. Seshadhri, and others

Other Links

• Complexity Zoo

• List of Open Problems in Sublinear Algorithms

• Best Paper Awards in Computer Science maintained by Jeff Huang

My Friends (In Alphabetic Order)

• Guanyu Cui (Renmin University of China)

• Shiyuan Deng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• Tingchen Fu (Renmin University of China)

• Mingguo He (Renmin University of China)

• Yupeng Hou (University of California San Diego)

• Zhaoheng Huang (Renmin University of China)

• Runlin Lei (Renmin University of China)

• Yifan Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

• Siru Ouyang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

• Zihua Si (Renmin University of China)

• Zhongxiang Sun (Renmin University of China)

• Tianyi Tang (Renmin University of China)

• Hanzhi Wang (Renmin University of China)

• Ru Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• Jialiang Xu (Stanford University)

• Wei Yao (Renmin University of China)

• Lu Yi (Renmin University of China)

• Jingsen Zhang (Renmin University of China)

• Zeyu Zhang (Renmin University of China)

I apologize if you are my friend and I have inadvertently missed you on this list. Please let me know if you would like to be included, even if you do not have a personal website.

My Experiences

• I was born in 2000 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.

• I participated in programming competitions of OI (Olympiad in Informatics) and ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) during my senior high and undergraduate time, respectively. You can find my Codeforces account here.