Xuandi Ren

Xuandi Ren

Ph.D Candidate in Computer Science

University of California, Berkeley

Biography

I am a third-year Ph.D student in the theory group of UC Berkeley, where I’m very lucky to be advised by Venkatesan Guruswami.

I have a broad interest in theoretical computer science, especially in Computational Complexity and Hardness of Approximation.

During my undergrad, I was fortunate to work with Prof. Bingkai Lin on Parameterized Inapproximability, with Prof. Huacheng Yu on Sketching Complexity, and with Prof. Pinyan Lu on Algorithms with Predictions.

Email: xuandi_ren@berkeley.edu

Interests
  • Algorithms
  • Parameterized Complexity
  • Hardness of Approximation
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2022-now

    University of California, Berkeley

  • BSc in Computer Science, 2018-2022

    Turing Class, School of EECS, Peking University

Recent Publications

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(2024). Almost Optimal Time Lower Bound for Approximating Parameterized Clique, CSP, and More, under ETH.

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(2023). Parameterized Inapproximability Hypothesis under ETH. Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2024, (Best Paper Award).

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(2023). Baby PIH: Parameterized Inapproximability of Min CSP. 39th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC), 2024.

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(2023). Improved Hardness of Approximating k-Clique under ETH. Proceedings of the 64th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2023.

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(2022). Constant Approximating Parameterized k-SetCover is W[2]-hard. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2023.

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