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Ryan Williams

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

60

Venues

24

Active years

2002–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

60 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026MFCSBeating Trivial Time for Tricky Triangle Tasks.Neha Pant, Ryan Williams
2026STOCA Theory for Probabilistic Polynomial-Time Reasoning.Lijie Chen, Jiatu Li, Igor C. Oliveira, Ryan Williams
2025ESANew Algorithms for Pigeonhole Equal Subset Sum.Ce Jin, Ryan Williams, Stan Zhang
2024FOCSThe Orthogonal Vectors Conjecture and Non-Uniform Circuit Lower Bounds.Ryan Williams
2024NSSEnhancing Network Security Through Vulnerability Monitoring.Ryan Williams, Anthony Gavazzi, Engin Kirda
2024SPHolepunch: Fast, Secure File Deletion with Crash Consistency.Zachary Ratliff, Wittmann Goh, Abe Wieland, James Mickens, Ryan Williams
2023ESAFaster Detours in Undirected Graphs.Shyan Akmal, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Ryan Williams, Zixuan Xu
2023FOCSDerandomization vs Refutation: A Unified Framework for Characterizing Derandomization.Lijie Chen, Roei Tell, Ryan Williams
2022SecureCommBreaking Embedded Software Homogeneity with Protocol Mutations.Tongwei Ren, Ryan Williams, Sirshendu Ganguly, Lorenzo De Carli, Long Lu
2021CHI"Naked and on Fire": Examining Player Agency Experiences in Narrative-Focused Gameplay.Eln Carstensdttir, Erica Kleinman, Ryan Williams, Magy Seif El-Nasr
2021FOCSMAJORITY-3SAT (and Related Problems) in Polynomial Time.Shyan Akmal, Ryan Williams
2021PLDIWeldr: fusing binaries for simplified analysis.Alexander Heinricher, Ryan Williams, Ava Klingbeil, Alex Jordan
2021SODAFast Low-Space Algorithms for Subset Sum.Ce Jin, Nikhil Vyas, Ryan Williams
2020AAAIResults on a Super Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis.Nikhil Vyas, Ryan Williams
2019ICALPComputing Permanents and Counting Hamiltonian Cycles by Listing Dissimilar Vectors.Andreas Bjrklund, Ryan Williams
2019ICALPSolving Systems of Polynomial Equations over GF(2) by a Parity-Counting Self-Reduction.Andreas Bjrklund, Petteri Kaski, Ryan Williams
2019SODAAn Equivalence Class for Orthogonal Vectors.Lijie Chen, Ryan Williams
2018HCIEvaluation of Visualization Heuristics.Ryan Williams, Jean Scholtz, Leslie M. Blaha, Lyndsey Franklin, Zhuanyi Huang
2018ISIIncremental Hacker Forum Exploit Collection and Classification for Proactive Cyber Threat Intelligence: An Exploratory Study.Ryan Williams, Sagar Samtani, Mark W. Patton, Hsinchun Chen
2018SODAOn the Difference Between Closest, Furthest, and Orthogonal Pairs: Nearly-Linear vs Barely-Subquadratic Complexity.Ryan Williams
2017ISIAssessing medical device vulnerabilities on the Internet of Things.Emma McMahon, Ryan Williams, Malaka El, Sagar Samtani, Mark W. Patton, Hsinchun Chen
2017ISIIdentifying vulnerabilities of consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices: A scalable approach.Ryan Williams, Emma McMahon, Sagar Samtani, Mark W. Patton, Hsinchun Chen
2016SODADeterministic APSP, Orthogonal Vectors, and More: Quickly Derandomizing Razborov-Smolensky.Timothy M. Chan, Ryan Williams
2016STOCSimulating branching programs with edit distance and friends: or: a polylog shaved is a lower bound made.Amir Abboud, Thomas Dueholm Hansen, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Ryan Williams
2016STOCSuper-linear gate and super-quadratic wire lower bounds for depth-two and depth-three threshold circuits.Daniel M. Kane, Ryan Williams
2015FOCSProbabilistic Polynomials and Hamming Nearest Neighbors.Josh Alman, Ryan Williams
2015PODSThe Communication Complexity of Distributed Set-Joins with Applications to Matrix Multiplication.Dirk Van Gucht, Ryan Williams, David P. Woodruff, Qin Zhang
2014CSLFaster decision of first-order graph properties.Ryan Williams
2014ESALosing Weight by Gaining Edges.Amir Abboud, Kevin Lewi, Ryan Williams
2014SODAFinding orthogonal vectors in discrete structures.Ryan Williams, Huacheng Yu
2014STOCNew algorithms and lower bounds for circuits with linear threshold gates.Ryan Williams
2014STOCFaster all-pairs shortest paths via circuit complexity.Ryan Williams
2013CSRTowards NEXP versus BPP?Ryan Williams
2013STOCNatural proofs versus derandomization.Ryan Williams
2011COCOONDiagonalization Strikes Back: Some Recent Lower Bounds in Complexity Theory.Ryan Williams
2011PODSMaximizing conjunctive views in deletion propagation.Benny Kimelfeld, Jan Vondrk, Ryan Williams
2011SATConnecting SAT Algorithms and Complexity Lower Bounds.Ryan Williams
2010FOCSSubcubic Equivalences between Path, Matrix and Triangle Problems.Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Ryan Williams
2010ICALPResolving the Complexity of Some Data Privacy Problems.Jeremiah Blocki, Ryan Williams
2010SODAOn the Possibility of Faster SAT Algorithms.Mihai Patrascu, Ryan Williams
2010STOCImproving exhaustive search implies superpolynomial lower bounds.Ryan Williams
2010STACSAlternation-Trading Proofs, Linear Programming, and Lower Bounds.Ryan Williams
2009COCOONAn Improved Time-Space Lower Bound for Tautologies.Scott Diehl, Dieter van Melkebeek, Ryan Williams
2009FOCSRegularity Lemmas and Combinatorial Algorithms.Nikhil Bansal, Ryan Williams
2009ICALPLimits and Applications of Group Algebras for Parameterized Problems.Ioannis Koutis, Ryan Williams
2009STOCFinding, minimizing, and counting weighted subgraphs.Virginia Vassilevska, Ryan Williams
2008ICALPA New Combinatorial Approach for Sparse Graph Problems.Guy E. Blelloch, Virginia Vassilevska, Ryan Williams
2007SODAMatrix-vector multiplication in sub-quadratic time: (some preprocessing required).Ryan Williams
2007STOCAll-pairs bottleneck paths for general graphs in truly sub-cubic time.Virginia Vassilevska, Ryan Williams, Raphael Yuster
2006ICALPFinding the SmallestVirginia Vassilevska, Ryan Williams, Raphael Yuster
2006ISAIMFinding Small Unsatisfiable Cores to Prove Unsatisfiability of QBFs.Yannet Interian, Gabriel Corvera, Bart Selman, Ryan Williams
2006SODAConfronting hardness using a hybrid approach.Virginia Vassilevska, Ryan Williams, Shan Leung Maverick Woo
2006STOCFinding a maximum weight triangle in nVirginia Vassilevska, Ryan Williams
2005IUIComicKit: acquiring story scripts using common sense feedback.Ryan Williams, Barbara Barry, Push Singh
2005SPAAParallelizing time with polynomial circuits.Ryan Williams
2004ICALPA New Algorithm for Optimal Constraint Satisfaction and Its Implications.Ryan Williams
2004PODSOn the Complexity of Optimal K-Anonymity.Adam Meyerson, Ryan Williams
2003IJCAIBackdoors To Typical Case Complexity.Ryan Williams, Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman
2003SATOn Computing k-CNF Formula Properties.Ryan Williams
2002SODAAlgorithms for quantified Boolean formulas.Ryan Williams