Jason Li

Teaching

Fall 2025: 15-750 Algorithms in the Real World
Spring 2025: 15-754 Spectral Graph Theory
Fall 2024: 15-451 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Spring 2024: 15-850 Advanced Algorithms

Research Interests

Graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization, with a focus on longstanding open questions for basic problems such as shortest path, maximum flow, and minimum cut

Current Students

Henry Fleischmann   George Li

Selected Publications (show all)

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Contact

Office: GHC 5011

Email: jm[my last name]@cs.cmu.edu

Advice on cold-emailing for research: If you are a student at CMU and/or you have worked with my recent collaborators, feel free to cold-email me asking for research opportunities and I will try my best to accommodate your request. Otherwise, please be aware that I receive many such emails on a weekly basis, and it is infeasible for me to reply to all of them. For initiating collaborations with no prior connections, my best advice is the following: read up on the person's work, improve or simplify one of their results, and email the improvement to them. Even a small improvement shows that you are committed to research, and most professors will gladly take the opportunity to work with a dedicated and promising student.