Pei Wu
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Penn State University
Biography
I am broadly interested in theoretical computer science. My recent research interests include query complexity and quantum proofs. I am looking for self-motivated students interested in theoretical computer science!
I obtained my Ph.D. degree at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). I am extremely fortunate to have Prof. Alexander Sherstov as my advisor. My disseration is Communication and Computation . I spent one year as a postdoc at Weizmann Insituted hosted by Thomas Vidick, as well as two fantastic years as a postdoc member at Institute for Advanced Study, under the supervision of Prof. Avi Wigderson.
My curriculum vitae , and research statement .
Recent Publications
Coherance in Property Testing: Quantum-Classical Separations and Collapses
F. G. Jeronimo, N. Magrafta, J. Slote, P. Wu
QIP 2025
Dimension Independent Disentanglers from Unentanglement and Applications
F. G. Jeronimo, P. Wu
CCC 2024
The Power of Unentangled Proofs with Non-negative Amplitudes
F. G. Jeronimo, P. Wu
STOC 2023
QIP 2024 contributed talk
Talk at Simons
An Optimal “It Ain’t Over till It’s Over” Theorem
R. Eldan, A. Wigderson, P. Wu
STOC 2023
Talk at IAS
An Optimal Separation of Randomized and Quantum Query Complexity
A. A. Sherstov, A. A. Storozhenko, and P. Wu
STOC 2021
QIP 2021 contributed talk
Near-Optimal Lower Bounds on the Threshold Degree and Sign-rank of AC0
A. A. Sherstov, P. Wu
STOC 2019
Invited to appear in SIAM Journal on Computing (special issue for STOC 2019)
Optimal Interactive Coding for Insertions, Deletions, and Substitutions
A. A. Sherstov, P. Wu
FOCS 2017
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 65(10):5971–6000, 2019.
Awards
Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award (Computer Science Department, UCLA)
June 2020
Dissertation Year Fellowship (Graduate Division, UCLA)
October 2020
Contact
- pei.wu@psu.edu
- W315 Westgate Building, State College, PA 16802