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Pei Wu

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Computer Science and Engineering

W209 Westgate Building

pkw5226@psu.edu

Research Areas:

Theoretical Computer Science

 
 

 

Education

  • PhD, Computer Science, UCLA, 2021

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Alexander Sherstov, Andrey Storozhenko and Pei Wu, 2023, "An Optimal Separation of Randomized and Quantum Query Complexity", SIAM Journal on Computing, 52, (2)
  • Alexander Sherstov and Pei Wu, 2023, "Near-Optimal Lower Bounds on the Threshold Degree and Sign-rank of AC0", SIAM Journal of Computing, 52, (2)
  • Alexander Sherstov and Pei Wu, 2019, "Optimal Interactive Coding for Insertions, Deletions, and Substitutions", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 65, (10)

Conference Proceedings

  • Fernando Granha Jeronimo and Pei Wu, 2024, "Dimension Independent Disentanglers from Unentanglement and Applications", CCC
  • Ronen Eldan, Avi Wigderson and Pei Wu, 2023, "An Optimal “It Ain’t Over till It’s Over” Theorem", Proceedings of the 55th Symposium on Theory of Computing
  • Fernando Granha Jeronimo and Pei Wu, 2023, "The Power of Unentangled Proofs with Non-negative Amplitudes", STOC
  • Alexander Sherstov, Andrey Storozhenko and Pei Wu, 2021, "An Optimal Separation of Randomized and Quantum Query Complexity", Proceedings of the 53rd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
  • Alexander Sherstov and Pei Wu, 2019, "Near-Optimal Lower Bounds on the Threshold Degree and Sign-rank of AC0", Proceedings of the 51st Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
  • Alexander Sherstov and Pei Wu, 2017, "Optimal Interactive Coding for Insertions, Deletions, and Substitutions", Proceedings of the IEEE 58th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

Service

Service to Penn State:

  • Academic Leadership and Support Work, Organizer, Theory Seminar Organizer, September 2025 - December 2025
  • Academic Leadership and Support Work, Faculty Mentor, Students reading group, January 2025 - December 2025

Service to External Organizations:

 


 

About

The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was created in the spring of 2015 to allow greater access to courses offered by both departments for undergraduate and graduate students in exciting collaborative research fields.

We offer B.S. degrees in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering and data science and graduate degrees (master's degrees and Ph.D.'s) in electrical engineering and computer science and engineering. EECS focuses on the convergence of technologies and disciplines to meet today’s industrial demands.

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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