Helia Yazdanyar

hyazdanyar@uwaterloo.ca

I am a first-year PhD student at University of Waterloo in the Algorithms and Complexity group, where I am advised by Sepehr Assadi. I got my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Sharif University of Technology. I am interested in sublinear and streaming algorithms.

Publications

• Coloring Graphs with Few Colors in the Streaming Model - SODA 2026
  with Sepehr Assadi and Janani Sundaresan
  [arXiv]
• Simple Sublinear Algorithms for (Delta+1) Vertex Coloring via Asymmetric Palette Sparsification - SOSA 2025
  with Sepehr Assadi
  Invited to TheoretiCS journal for SOSA'25 papers
  Best Paper Award at SOSA'25
  [arXiv], [Conference Version]
• Galloping in fast-growth natural merge sorts - Algorithmica 2024
  with Elahe Ghasemi, Vincent Jugé, and Ghazal Khalighinejad
  [arXiv], [Journal paper]