Julian Shun
Associate Professor Of Electrical Engineering And Computer Science (EECS)
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Shun is an associate professor of EECS at MIT and principal investigator at CSAIL who builds scalable parallel algorithms and high-performance systems for graph, geometric, and text analytics, with emerging work in financial applications. He combines deep research—PhD from Carnegie Mellon—with hands-on systems development, contributing to influential open-source projects like Ligra, a lightweight shared-memory graph processing framework. With 11 years of experience across academia and research fellowships at Berkeley, he teaches algorithms and performance engineering while maintaining reproducible code, publications, and teaching materials online. Known for turning theoretical insights into practical, debuggable implementations, he is potentially available for consulting.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (10)
data-structures10
graph-algorithms10
c-language10
parallel-computing10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure10
optimization9
performance-optimization9
optmization9
optimisation9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jshun/ligra
Sep 2014 - Jun 2021
Ligra: A Lightweight Graph Processing Framework for Shared Memory
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 36 commits, 11 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the core functionalities of the Ligra graph processing framework. Their work involved debugging and refactoring existing code within the `IO.h` and `utils.h` files, addressing symmetrization processes, and filling in degree zero vertices. The user also updated the `ligra.h` file, likely related to the integration of new modules, and further refined the implementation of various graph algorithms like BFS, PageRank, and BellmanFord, along with the hypergraph library. Finally, they moved the driver to `ligra.h`.
graphshared-memory
jshun/ppopp20-ae
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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