Intro

Contact: fan.1090@osu.edu

Welcome to Dayi's Homepage!

I'm a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University advised by Prof. Xiaodong Zhang. I joined the program in Spring 2022. I received my B.Eng. degree from Southern University of Science and Technology in 2021. More details can be found in my resume.

My research focuses on parallel computing, algorithm engineering, and scalable data systems. Specifically, I design novel parallel algorithms and develop hardware-aware implementations on multicore CPUs and GPUs to accelerate irregular workloads across graph analytics, database systems, and other data-intensive applications. My work has produced state-of-the-art parallel solutions for several fundamental problems: tree edit distance, graph maximum matching, and bipartite weighted matching.

My long-term research vision is to make computing systems more automatic, adaptive, and resource-efficient. Feel free to reach out, and I always enjoy meeting new people :)

News

Aug 31, 2026 — An invited talk at MIT CSAIL: Massive Parallelization of Irregular Computations. Many thanks to Prof. Julian Shun for the invitation!