John Wright

As of September 2016, this page is no longer maintained. See here for my current page.

I am a sixth-year Ph.D. student at CMU. My advisor is Ryan O'Donnell.

Current teaching

Publications

Efficient quantum tomography II
R. O'Donnell, J. Wright
      STOC '17

Improved and simplified inapproximability for k-means (pdf)
E. Lee, M. Schmidt, J. Wright
      To appear, Information Processing Letters.

Efficient quantum tomography (pdf, video)
R. O'Donnell, J. Wright
      STOC '16, QIP '16
See also our note on the Haah et al. tomography algorithm (pdf).

Beating the random assignment on constraint satisfaction problems of bounded degree (pdf)
B. Barak, A. Moitra, R. O'Donnell, P. Raghavendra, O. Regev, D. Steurer, L. Trevisan, A. Vijayaraghavan, D. Witmer, J. Wright
      APPROX '15

Adaptivity helps for testing juntas (pdf)
R. Servedio, L.-Y. Tan, J. Wright
      CCC '15

Quantum spectrum testing (pdf)
R. O'Donnell, J. Wright
      STOC '15, QIP '15

Improved NP-inapproximability for 2-variable linear equations (pdf)
J. Håstad, S. Huang, R. Manokaran, R. O'Donnell, J. Wright
      To appear, Theory of Computing.
      APPROX '15

Optimal strong parallel repetition for projection games on low threshold rank graphs (pdf)
M. Tulsiani, J. Wright, Y. Zhou
      ICALP '14

A composition theorem for parity kill number (pdf)
R. O'Donnell, X. Sun, L.-Y. Tan, J. Wright, Y. Zhao
      CCC '14

Hardness of robust graph isomorphism, Lasserre gaps, and asymmetry of random graphs (pdf, video)
R. O'Donnell, J. Wright, C. Wu, Y. Zhou
      SODA '14

Decision trees, protocols, and the Fourier Entropy-Influence Conjecture (pdf)
A. Wan, J. Wright, C. Wu
      ITCS '14

New NP-hardness results for 3-Coloring and 2-to-1 Label Cover (pdf)
P. Austrin, R. O'Donnell, L.-Y. Tan, J. Wright
      ACM Transactions on Computation Theory 6(1), Article 2 (2014)
      Preliminary version: APPROX '12, A new point of NP-hardness for 2-to-1 Label Cover

A new point of NP-hardness for Unique Games (pdf)
R. O'Donnell, J. Wright
      To appear, Journal of the ACM.
      STOC '12

The Fourier Entropy-Influence Conjecture for certain classes of Boolean functions (pdf, video)
R. O'Donnell, J. Wright, Y. Zhou
      ICALP '11