Rachel Yun Zhang

I am a fourth year PhD student in computer science at MIT where I am fortunate to be advised by Yael Tauman Kalai and Vinod Vaikuntanathan. Before that, I completed a B.S. in mathematics at MIT.

I am broadly interested in theoretical computer science. Currently, I am particularly interested in error-correcting codes, expanders, and quantum computation.

I am grateful to be supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I was supported in my first year by an Akamai Presidential Fellowship.

Email: rachelyz [at] mit [dot] edu

Publications

Authors are listed in alphabetical order by last name, as is convention in theoretical computer science.

Preprints

Zhiyang He, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Adam Wills, and Rachel Yun Zhang

Irit Dinur, Siqi Liu, and Rachel Yun Zhang

Conference Publications

Jun-Ting Hsieh, Ting-Chun Lin, Sidhanth Mohanty, Ryan O'Donnell, and Rachel Yun Zhang

STOC 2025

Meghal Gupta and Rachel Yun Zhang

ITCS 2025

Meghal Gupta and Rachel Yun Zhang

ITCS 2025 • Best Student Paper Award

Meghal Gupta and Rachel Yun Zhang

RANDOM 2023

Merge of:

Meghal Gupta, Venkatesan Guruswami,  and Rachel Yun Zhang

STOC 2023

Meghal Gupta and Rachel Yun Zhang

STOC 2023

Meghal Gupta and Rachel Yun Zhang

STOC 2022 • Best Student Paper Award • In SICOMP Special Issue for STOC 2022 [SICOMP Version]

IAS CSDM Seminar Talk

Meghal Gupta, Yael Tauman Kalai, and Rachel Yun Zhang

STOC 2022

Yael Tauman Kalai,  Vinod Vaikuntanathan, and Rachel Yun Zhang

TCC 2021

Ruta Jawale, Yael Tauman Kalai, Dakshita Khurana, and Rachel Yun Zhang

STOC 2021