Peilin Zhong is a research scientist affiliated with the Algorithms and Optimization Team at Google Research New York. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he was under the guidance of Alex Andoni, Cliff Stein, and Mihalis Yannakakis. Prior to this, he completed his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University as part of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (Yao Class). Peilin's research expertise spans the realm of theoretical computer science, focusing primarily on algorithm design and analysis. His research interests encompass a wide range of areas, including parallel and massively parallel algorithms, sketching, streaming algorithms, graph algorithms, machine learning, high-dimensional geometry, metric embedding, numerical linear algebra, clustering, and various algorithms relevant to large-scale data computation.