Haitao Xu

Haitao Xu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cleveland State University in August 2025 under the supervision of Dr. Jingru Zhang. He earned his M.S. in Software Engineering from Kunming University of Science and Technology in Kunming, China. His research interests include algorithms and data structures, combinatorial optimization, operations research, and theoretical computer science. In addition, he has over five years of industry experience as a software engineer, with expertise in requirements analysis, system design, application development, maintenance, and system programming, working on projects ranging from web applications to backend services.

news

Jul 18, 2025	Volunteer for the Summer of Innovation 2025
Apr 23, 2025	Haitao has completed his Ph.D. dissertation defense.

selected publications

arXiv

The k-Center Problem of Uncertain Points on Graphs

Haitao Xu and Jingru Zhang

arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.14803, 2025

Bib

JCO

The two-center problem of uncertain points on cactus graphs

Haitao Xu and Jingru Zhang

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2025

Bib HTML

@article{xu2025two,
  title = {The two-center problem of uncertain points on cactus graphs},
  author = {Xu, Haitao and Zhang, Jingru},
  journal = {Journal of Combinatorial Optimization},
  volume = {49},
  number = {4},
  pages = {54},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Springer},
}

COCOA2023

The Two-Center Problem of Uncertain Points on Trees

Haitao Xu and Jingru Zhang

In International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, 2023

Bib

@inproceedings{xu2023two,
  title = {The Two-Center Problem of Uncertain Points on Trees},
  author = {Xu, Haitao and Zhang, Jingru},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications},
  pages = {485--497},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {Springer},
}

JCO

The two-center problem of uncertain points on a real line

Haitao Xu and Jingru Zhang

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2023

Bib HTML

@article{xu2023twp,
  title = {The two-center problem of uncertain points on a real line},
  author = {Xu, Haitao and Zhang, Jingru},
  journal = {Journal of Combinatorial Optimization},
  volume = {45},
  number = {2},
  pages = {68},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Springer},
}