Linji Yang Email:ljyang <dot> gatech <dot> edu I am a third year PhD student in the Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization program at Georgia Tech. My advisor is Prof. Eric Vigoda . I did my undergraduate study at the department of Computer Science in Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 2002 to 2006.   Research Interests Randomized Algorithms, especially Monte Carlo Markov Chain Methods Probability methods   Papers "Phase Transition for the Mixing Time of the Glauber Dynamics for Coloring Regular Trees". (Prasad Tetali, Juan C. Vera, Eric Vigoda) Submitted. "Longest Increasing Subsequences in Windows based on Canonical Antichain Partition ". (Erdong Chen, Hao Yuan) Theor. Comput. Sci. 378(3): 223-236 (2007) "Improved Algorithms for Largest Cardinality 2-Interval Pattern Problem ". (Erdong Chen, Hao Yuan) J. Comb. Optim. 13(3): 263-275 (2007)