Hi 🌊! I'm a fourth-year PhD student in UC San Diego's CS Theory Group where I am very lucky to work with Barna Saha and Russell Impagliazzo. I am interested in algorithm design, fine-grained complexity, as well as computational complexity and learning theory.
Hi 🌊! I'm a fourth-year PhD student in UC San Diego's CS Theory Group where I am very lucky to work with Barna Saha and Russell Impagliazzo. I am interested in algorithm design, fine-grained complexity, as well as computational complexity and learning theory.
Previously, I worked for a year as a Quantitative Analyst in the Fixed Income, Secured Lending Group at Morgan Stanley. Before that, I received my undegraduate degree in mathematics from Princeton in 2021, where I was fortunate to work with Gillat Kol. I also completed an internship with the AI Infrastructure Group at aidoc during the summer of 2019.
When not at the office, I enjoy swimming, baking, and exploring the outdoors.
You can reach me at czye (at) ucsd (dot) edu
Thank you to Sharon for giving me the template to her personal website.
| [06/2026] | Presented "On the Computational Hardness of Transformers" at STOC 2026 |
| [04/2026] | Presented "Subquadratic Algorithms and Hardness for Attention with Any Temperature" at ICLR 2026 |
| [01/2026] | Presented "Distribution Testing in the Presence of Arbitrary Noise with Verification Queries" at SODA 2026 |