Mingji Yang

Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
Email: kyleyoung AT ruc.edu.cn

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I am currently a 3rd-year Ph.D. candidate at Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, where I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Ji-Rong Wen and Prof. Zhewei Wei. Before my graduate studies, I received my B.E. degree in Computer Science and Technology at School of Information, Renmin University of China in June 2022.

My research interests are centered around theoretical computer science (TCS) and data mining, with a particular focus on sublinear-time graph algorithms and spectral graph theory. Although my knowledge in TCS is limited by far, I have a broad interest and strong passion for this field. My current works mainly concentrate on efficient approximation of PageRank and Personalized PageRank values, which are celebrated node centrality and proximity measures on graphs. I am actively learing some elementary books and courses to broaden my knowledge in TCS.

News

Sep 01, 2024 My first-authored paper “Efficient Algorithms for Personalized PageRank Computation: A Survey” has been officially published.
Jun 11, 2024 My co-authored paper “Revisiting Local Computation of PageRank: Simple and Optimal” has been officially published. Unfortunately, I cannot attend the STOC 2024 conference in person, due to the exceptionally and unreasonably long processing time of my visa application to Canada. :disappointed:
Mar 24, 2024 I am traveling to Paestum, Italy to attend the EDBT/ICDT 2024 Joint Conference from Mar. 25th to Mar. 28th. :airplane: :it:
Mar 20, 2024 The arXiv version of my co-authored paper “Revisiting Local Computation of PageRank: Simple and Optimal” is now available.
Mar 14, 2024 My co-authored paper “Approximating Single-Source Personalized PageRank with Absolute Error Guarantees” has been officially published.

Publications

Papers marked with "†" are from theoretical venues, where the authors have equal contributions and are ordered alphabetically.

  1. Mingji YangHanzhi WangZhewei Wei*Sibo Wang, and Ji-Rong Wen
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2024
  2. Hanzhi WangZhewei Wei*Ji-Rong Wen, and Mingji Yang
    In Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, Jun 2024
  3. Zhewei Wei*Ji-Rong Wen, and Mingji Yang
    In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Database Theory, Mar 2024

Selected Awards

2022 Outstanding Graduate Student of Beijing
2021 CCF Elite Collegiate Award
2021 Gold Medal in CCF Collegiate Computer Systems & Programming Contest (CCSP)
2021 Silver Medal in ICPC Asia-East Continent Final (Thrice, in 2018, 2019, and 2021)
2019 Gold Medal in ICPC Asia Regional Contest (Twice, in Nanjing and Nanchang)
2019 China National Scholarship

Academic Services

2024 Reviewer for International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)