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• 2025:
  [28] Parallel Point-to-Point Shortest Paths and Batch Queries (To Appear)
  Xiaojun Dong, Andy Li, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2025    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Dong2025Parallel,
  title = { Parallel Point-to-Point Shortest Paths and Batch Queries (To Appear) },
  author = { Dong, Xiaojun and  Li, Andy and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2025 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3694906.3743311    [copy]
  
    Software:
  Orionet: Parallel Single and Batch PPSP  [Github]
  Paper   ArXiV  Code  
• [27] New Algorithms for Incremental Minimum Spanning Trees and Temporal Graph Applications (To Appear)
  Xiangyun Ding, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  ACDA
   SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA), 2025    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Ding2025New,
  title = { New Algorithms for Incremental Minimum Spanning Trees and Temporal Graph Applications (To Appear) },
  author = { Ding, Xiangyun and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA)},
  year = { 2025 }
  }

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    Software:
  AM-tree: Anti-Monoply tree for incremental MST and temporal connectivity  [Github]
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• [26] Parallel Contraction Hierarchies Can Be Efficient and Scalable
  Zijin Wan, Xiaojun Dong, Letong Wang, Enzuo Zhu, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  🏆 Best Paper Finalist!
  ICS
   International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), 2025    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Wan2025Parallel,
  title = { Parallel Contraction Hierarchies Can Be Efficient and Scalable },
  author = { Wan, Zijin and  Dong, Xiaojun and  Wang, Letong and  Zhu, Enzuo and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS)},
  year = { 2025 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3721145.3725744    [copy]
  
    Software:
  SPoCH: Scalable Parallelization of Contraction Hierarchies  [Github]
  
  HOPC
   Poster and oral presentation at the Highlights of Parallel Computing (HOPC@SPAA), 2025
  Paper   ArXiV  Code  Slides  
• [25] Parallel Cluster-BFS and Applications to Shortest Paths
  Letong Wang, Guy E. Blelloch, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  ALENEX
   Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX), 2025    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Wang2025Parallel,
  title = { Parallel Cluster-BFS and Applications to Shortest Paths },
  author = { Wang, Letong and  Blelloch, Guy E. and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)},
  year = { 2025 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1137/1.9781611978339.4    [copy]
  
    Software:
  CBFS: Cluster Breadth-First Search  [Github]
  Paper   ArXiV  Code  Slides  
• 2024:
  [24] Parallel and (Nearly) Work-Efficient Dynamic Programming
  Xiangyun Ding, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  🏆 Outstanding Paper Award (Best paper finalist)!
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2024    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Ding2024Parallel,
  title = { Parallel and (Nearly) Work-Efficient Dynamic Programming },
  author = { Ding, Xiangyun and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2024 }
  }

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    Software:
  Parallel Work-Efficient Dynamic Programming  [Github]
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• [23] Brief Announcement: PASGAL: Parallel And Scalable Graph Algorithm Library
  Xiaojun Dong, Yan Gu, Yihan Sun, and Letong Wang
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2024    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Dong2024Brief,
  title = { Brief Announcement: PASGAL: Parallel And Scalable Graph Algorithm Library },
  author = { Dong, Xiaojun and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan and  Wang, Letong},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2024 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3626183.3660258    [copy]
  
    Software:
  PASGAL: Parallel And Scalable Graph Algorithm Library  [Github]
  Paper   ArXiV  Code  Slides  Poster  
• [22] ParlayANN: Scalable and Deterministic Parallel Graph-Based Algorithms for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
  Magdalen Dobson Manohar, Zheqi Shen, , Laxman Dhulipala, Yan Gu, Harsha Simhadri, and Yihan Sun
  
  PPoPP
   ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 2024    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Manohar2024ParlayANN:,
  title = { ParlayANN: Scalable and Deterministic Parallel Graph-Based Algorithms for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search },
  author = { Manohar, Magdalen Dobson and  Shen, Zheqi and  , and  Dhulipala, Laxman and  Gu, Yan and  Simhadri, Harsha and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP)},
  year = { 2024 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3627535.3638475    [copy]
  
    Software:
  ParlayANN: Parallel Graph-Based Algorithms for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search  [Github]
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• [21] Parallel Integer Sort: Theory and Practice
  Xiaojun Dong, Laxman Dhulipala, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  PPoPP
   ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 2024    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Dong2024Parallel,
  title = { Parallel Integer Sort: Theory and Practice },
  author = { Dong, Xiaojun and  Dhulipala, Laxman and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP)},
  year = { 2024 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3627535.3638483    [copy]
  
    Software:
  DovetailSort: Parallel Integer Sort  [Github]
  
  HOPC
   Poster and oral presentation at the Highlights of Parallel Computing (HOPC@SPAA), 2024
  Paper   ArXiV  Code  Slides  Poster  
• [20] Fast and Space-Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Influence Maximization
  Letong Wang, Xiangyun Ding, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  VLDB
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB), 2024    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Wang2024Fast,
  title = { Fast and Space-Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Influence Maximization },
  author = { Wang, Letong and  Ding, Xiangyun and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB)},
  year = { 2024 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.14778/3632093.3632104    [copy]
  
    Software:
  PaC-IM: Parallel and Compressed Influence Maximization  [Github]
  
  HOPC
   Poster and oral presentation at the Highlights of Parallel Computing (HOPC@SPAA), 2024
  Paper   ArXiV  Code  Poster  
• 2023:
  [19] Efficient Parallel Output-Sensitive Edit Distance
  Xiangyun Ding, Xiaojun Dong, Yan Gu, Youzhe Liu, and Yihan Sun
  
  🏆 Best Paper Award!
  ESA
   European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 2023    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Ding2023Efficient,
  title = { Efficient Parallel Output-Sensitive Edit Distance },
  author = { Ding, Xiangyun and  Dong, Xiaojun and  Gu, Yan and  Liu, Youzhe and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA)},
  year = { 2023 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.40    [copy]
  
    Software:
  Parallel Output-Sensitive Edit Distance  [Github]
  
  HOPC
   Poster and oral presentation at the Highlights of Parallel Computing (HOPC@SPAA), 2024
  Paper   ArXiV  Code  Slides  
• [18] High-Performance and Flexible Parallel Algorithms for Semisort and Related Problems
  Xiaojun Dong, Yunshu Wu, Zhongqi Wang, Laxman Dhulipala, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2023    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Dong2023High-Performance,
  title = { High-Performance and Flexible Parallel Algorithms for Semisort and Related Problems },
  author = { Dong, Xiaojun and  Wu, Yunshu and  Wang, Zhongqi and  Dhulipala, Laxman and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2023 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3558481.3591071    [copy]
  
    Software:
  Parallel Semisort  [Github]
  Paper   ArXiV  Code  Slides  
• [17] Parallel Longest Increasing Subsequence and van Emde Boas Trees
  Yan Gu, Ziyang Men, Zheqi Shen, Yihan Sun, and Zijin Wan
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2023    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Gu2023Parallel,
  title = { Parallel Longest Increasing Subsequence and van Emde Boas Trees },
  author = { Gu, Yan and  Men, Ziyang and  Shen, Zheqi and  Sun, Yihan and  Wan, Zijin},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2023 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3558481.3591069    [copy]
  
    Software:
  Parallel Longest Increasing Subsequence  [Github]
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• [16] Parallel Strong Connectivity Based on Faster Reachability
  Letong Wang, Xiaojun Dong, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  SIGMOD
   ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2023    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Wang2023Parallel,
  title = { Parallel Strong Connectivity Based on Faster Reachability },
  author = { Wang, Letong and  Dong, Xiaojun and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)},
  year = { 2023 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3589259    [copy]
  
    Software:
  Parallel Strongly Connected Components (SCC), integrated in PASGAL  [Github]
  
  ACDA
   Poster presented at the SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA), 2023
  
  HOPC
   Poster presented at the Highlights of Parallel Computing (HOPC@SPAA), 2023
  Paper   ArXiV  Code  Slides  Poster  
• [15] Provably Fast and Space-Efficient Parallel Biconnectivity
  Xiaojun Dong, Letong Wang, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  🏆 Best Paper Award!
  PPoPP
   ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 2023    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Dong2023Provably,
  title = { Provably Fast and Space-Efficient Parallel Biconnectivity },
  author = { Dong, Xiaojun and  Wang, Letong and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP)},
  year = { 2023 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3572848.3577483    [copy]
  
    Software:
  Parallel Biconnected Components (BCC), integrated in PASGAL  [Github]
  
  ACDA
   Poster and oral presentation at the SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA), 2023
  
  HOPC
   Poster and oral presentation at the Highlights of Parallel Computing (HOPC@SPAA), 2023
  Paper   ArXiV  Code  Poster  
• 2022:
  [14] Many Sequential Iterative Algorithms Can Be Parallel and (Nearly) Work-efficient
  Zheqi Shen, Zijin Wan, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2022    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Shen2022Many,
  title = { Many Sequential Iterative Algorithms Can Be Parallel and (Nearly) Work-efficient },
  author = { Shen, Zheqi and  Wan, Zijin and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2022 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3490148.3538574    [copy]
  
    Software:
  Parallel Dynamic Programming (DP) and greedy algorithms  [Github]
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• [13] PaC-trees: Supporting Parallel and Compressed Purely-Functional Collections
  Laxman Dhulipala, Guy E. Blelloch, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  PLDI
   ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2022    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Dhulipala2022PaC-trees:,
  title = { PaC-trees: Supporting Parallel and Compressed Purely-Functional Collections },
  author = { Dhulipala, Laxman and  Blelloch, Guy E. and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)},
  year = { 2022 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3519939.3523733    [copy]
  
    Software:
  CPAM: Compressed Parallel Augmented Maps  [Github]
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• [12] Joinable Parallel Balanced Binary Trees
  Guy E. Blelloch, Daniel Ferizovic, and Yihan Sun
  
  TOPC
   ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC), 2022    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Blelloch2022Joinable,
  title = { Joinable Parallel Balanced Binary Trees },
  author = { Blelloch, Guy E. and  Ferizovic, Daniel and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC)},
  year = { 2022 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3512769    [copy]
  
    Software:
  PAM: Parallel Augmented Maps  [Github]
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• 2021:
  [11] Efficient Stepping Algorithms and Implementations for Parallel Shortest Paths
  Xiaojun Dong, Yan Gu, Yihan Sun, and Yunming Zhang
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2021    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Dong2021Efficient,
  title = { Efficient Stepping Algorithms and Implementations for Parallel Shortest Paths },
  author = { Dong, Xiaojun and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan and  Zhang, Yunming},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2021 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3409964.3461782    [copy]
  
    Software:
  Rho-Stepping: Parallel single-source shortes paths, integrated in PASGAL  [Github]
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• 2020:
  [10] On Supporting Efficient Snapshot Isolation for Hybrid Workloads with Multi-Versioned Indexes
  Yihan Sun, Guy E. Blelloch, Wan Shen Lim, and Andrew Pavlo
  
  VLDB
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB), 2020    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Sun2020On,
  title = { On Supporting Efficient Snapshot Isolation for Hybrid Workloads with Multi-Versioned Indexes },
  author = { Sun, Yihan and  Blelloch, Guy E. and  Lim, Wan Shen and  Pavlo, Andrew},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB)},
  year = { 2020 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.14778/3364324.3364334    [copy]
  
    Software:
  Part of the PAM library: Parallel Augmented Maps  [Github]
  Paper   Video  Code  Slides  
• 2019:
  [9] Multiversion Concurrency with Bounded Delay and Precise Garbage Collection
  Naama Ben-David, Guy E. Blelloch, Yihan Sun, and Yuanhao Wei
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2019    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Ben-David2019Multiversion,
  title = { Multiversion Concurrency with Bounded Delay and Precise Garbage Collection },
  author = { Ben-David, Naama and  Blelloch, Guy E. and  Sun, Yihan and  Wei, Yuanhao},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2019 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3323165.3323185    [copy]
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• 2018:
  [8] Algorithmic Building Blocks for Asymmetric Memories
  Yan Gu, Yihan Sun, and Guy E. Blelloch
  
  ESA
   European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 2018    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Gu2018Algorithmic,
  title = { Algorithmic Building Blocks for Asymmetric Memories },
  author = { Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan and  Blelloch, Guy E.},
  booktitle = {European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA)},
  year = { 2018 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.44    [copy]
  Paper   ArXiV  
• [7] PAM: Parallel Augmented Maps
  Yihan Sun, Daniel Ferizovic, and Guy E. Blelloch
  
  PPoPP
   ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 2018    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Sun2018PAM:,
  title = { PAM: Parallel Augmented Maps },
  author = { Sun, Yihan and  Ferizovic, Daniel and  Blelloch, Guy E.},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP)},
  year = { 2018 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/3200691.3178509    [copy]
  
    Software:
  PAM: Parallel Augmented Maps  [Github]
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• 2016:
  [6] Just Join for Parallel Ordered Sets
  Guy E. Blelloch, Daniel Ferizovic, and Yihan Sun
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2016    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Blelloch2016Just,
  title = { Just Join for Parallel Ordered Sets },
  author = { Blelloch, Guy E. and  Ferizovic, Daniel and  Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2016 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/2935764.2935768    [copy]
  
    Software:
  Part of the PAM library: Parallel Augmented Maps  [Github]
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• [5] Parallel Shortest-paths Using Radius Stepping
  Guy E. Blelloch, Yan Gu, Yihan Sun, and Kanat Tangwongsan
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2016    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Blelloch2016Parallel,
  title = { Parallel Shortest-paths Using Radius Stepping },
  author = { Blelloch, Guy E. and  Gu, Yan and  Sun, Yihan and  Tangwongsan, Kanat},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2016 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/2935764.2935765    [copy]
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• 2015:
  [4] Simultaneous Optimization of Both Node and Edge Conservation in Network Alignment via WAVE
  Yihan Sun, Joseph Crawford, Jie Tang, and Tijana Milenkovic
  
  WABI
   Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), 2015    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Sun2015Simultaneous,
  title = { Simultaneous Optimization of Both Node and Edge Conservation in Network Alignment via WAVE },
  author = { Sun, Yihan and  Crawford, Joseph and  Tang, Jie and  Milenkovic, Tijana},
  booktitle = {Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI)},
  year = { 2015 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1007/978-3-662-48221-6_2    [copy]
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• [3] A Top-down Parallel Semisort
  Yan Gu, Julian Shun, Yihan Sun, and Guy E. Blelloch
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2015    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Gu2015A,
  title = { A Top-down Parallel Semisort },
  author = { Gu, Yan and  Shun, Julian and  Sun, Yihan and  Blelloch, Guy E.},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2015 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/2755573.2755597    [copy]
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• 2014:
  [2] Fair Evaluation of Global Network Aligners
  Joseph Crawford, Yihan Sun, and Tijana Milenkovic
  
  AMB
   Algorithms for Molecular Biology (AMB), 2014    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Crawford2014Fair,
  title = { Fair Evaluation of Global Network Aligners },
  author = { Crawford, Joseph and  Sun, Yihan and  Milenkovic, Tijana},
  booktitle = {Algorithms for Molecular Biology (AMB)},
  year = { 2014 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1145/2755573.2755597    [copy]
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• 2013:
  [1] Influence Maximization in Dynamic Social Networks
  Honglei Zhuang, Yihan Sun, Jie Tang, Jialin Zhang, and Xiaoming Sun
  
  ICDM
   IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2013    [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Zhuang2013Influence,
  title = { Influence Maximization in Dynamic Social Networks },
  author = { Zhuang, Honglei and  Sun, Yihan and  Tang, Jie and  Zhang, Jialin and  Sun, Xiaoming},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)},
  year = { 2013 }
  }

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    DOI:
  10.1109/ICDM.2013.145    [copy]
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