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Josh Z Sobel

Computer Science PhD student at the University of Iowa

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Academics

Research

I am pursuing research into combinatorial sampling/counting algorithms. In particular, I am focused on these problems in the distributed computing setting. For example, sampling using distributed Markov chains. I am advised by Professor Sriram Pemmaraju.

Publications

  • Sublinear-time Sampling of Spanning Trees in the Congested Clique (PODC 2025), S. V. Pemmaraju, S. Roy, J. Z. Sobel, arxiv
  • Exact Distributed Sampling (SIROCCO 2023), S. V. Pemmaraju and J. Z. Sobel, arxiv, slides

Contact

joshua-sobel@uiowa.edu

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