Yingying Wu

Yingying Wu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston. She serves as the Head Coach for Harvard University's International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) teams and a trainer for the ICPC North America Championship Programming Camp. Her research focuses on differential geometry, supersymmetry, computational geometry, and machine learning applications in geometric analysis and biomedical problems. She has advised Ph.D. student Haotian Zuo, who specializes in derived categories and moduli spaces of vector bundles.

Her academic contributions span theoretical mathematics and applied machine learning, with notable work on Laplace-Beltrami operators, Z/2 harmonic spinors, and protein structure analysis. She has served as a judge for multiple regional programming contests and developed training materials for competitive programming education. Her research bridges geometric analysis with computational techniques, addressing challenges in medical imaging, 3D shape recognition, and phylogenetic modeling.

Key areas of expertise include eigenvalue problems in differential geometry, moduli spaces of curves with supersymmetric structures, and AI-driven approaches to geometric feature representation. Her programming contest leadership reflects expertise in algorithm design and competitive problem-solving strategies.