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    <h1>Albert Weng</h1>
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    <p>I am a second year PhD student in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in the <a href="https://aco.gatech.edu/">Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization</a> program. I am fortunate to be advised by <a href="https://jvdbrand.com">Jan van den Brand.</a></p>
    <p>Previously, I was an undergrad at the University of Washington and worked with <a href="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~shayan/">Shayan Oveis Gharan.</a></p>
    <p>My research interests lie broadly in convex optimization, combinatorial optimization, and theoretical computer science. I am especially interested in the analysis of interior point methods.</p>
    <p>I help organize the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/aco-student-seminar-gatech/home">ACO Student Seminar</a>. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in giving a talk!</p>
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    <h2>Recent/Selected Publications</h2>
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        <li><em>Adaptive Matrix Sparsification and Applications to Empirical Risk Minimization</em> <br>Yang P. Liu, Richard Peng, Colin Tang, Albert Weng, Junzhao Yang<br><i>In Submission</i> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02003">Arxiv</a>] [<a href="erm.pdf">Slides</a>]</li>
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        <li><em>Computing Flows in Subquadratic Space</em> <br>Jan van den Brand, Zhao Song, Albert Weng<br><i>ICALP 2026</i> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09547">Arxiv</a>]<!--[<a href="#">Slides</a>]--></li>
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    <h2>Teaching</h2>
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        <li>TA for Algorithms at GT [Fall 2025]</li>
        <li>TA for Algorithms at UW [Fall 2022-Spring 2024] (head TA in final 2 terms)</li>
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    <h2>Other</h2>
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        <li>Reviewer for: JACM, STOC 2026, SOSA 2026</li>
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    <h2>Contact</h2>
    You can reach me at albweng@gatech.edu.
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