Contact:
john.lazarsfeld [at] yale.edu
About:
I am a fourth year PhD student in computer science at Yale, advised
by James Aspnes.
My research interests are broadly in algorithms, TCS, and data science, including:
- distributed gossip algorithms and population protocols
- differential privacy
- learning theory
News:
For the Winter/Spring 2023 semester, I will be a visitor at
IST Austria working with Dan Alistarh.
In Summer 2022, I interned with the privacy-preserving machine learning
research group at Meta in NYC, where I collaborated with Sen Yuan
and Huanyu Zhang.
Publications:
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Talley Amir, James Aspnes, Petra Berenbrink, Felix Biermeier, Christopher Hahn,
Dominik Kaaser, and John Lazarsfeld
Fast Convergence of k-Opinion Undecided State Dynamics in the
Population Protocol Model
January 2023 -- to appear at PODC 2023
[ArXiv]
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John Lazarsfeld, Aaron Johnson, and Emmanuel Adeniran
Differentially Private Maximal Information Coefficients
ICML 2022
[ArXiv]
[Proceedings]
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John Lazarsfeld and Aaron Johnson
Consistency of the Maximal Information Coefficient Estimator
July 2021 -- corrects an error in previous work of Reshef et al. (JMLR, 2016)
[ArXiv]
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Talley Amir, James Aspnes, and John Lazarsfeld
Approximate Majority With Catalytic Inputs
OPODIS 2020
[ArXiv]
[Proceedings]
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John Lazarsfeld, Jonathan RodrÃguez, Mert Erden, Yuelin Liu, and Lenore Cowen
Majority Vote Cascading: A Semi-Supervised Framework for Improving
Protein Function Prediction
ACM BCB 2019 -
Companion poster named Best Poster
[Conf. Proceedings]
[Code and Data]
Teaching:
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Yale CPSC 565: Distributed Algorithms
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Fall 2023
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Yale CPSC 365: Introduction to Algorithms
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Spring 2022, Spring 2021
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Yale CPSC 202: Mathematical Tools for Computer Science
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Fall 2021, Fall 2020
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Tufts COMP 160: Introduction to Algorithms
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Spring 2019; Summer 2019
Other:
Member of Yale CS Graduated Student Advisory Council (2022)
Graduate Student Representative on Yale CS Climate & Diversity Committee (2020-2021)
Franklin College Graduate Affiliate (2020-)
Last Updated: March 2023