Publications

Peer-reviewed papers, manuscripts in progress, course notes, and selected talks. My name is shown in bold.

Peer-Reviewed & Accepted

2025
RSK linear operators and the Vershik–Kerov–Logan–Shepp curve
Duy Phan, David Xia
TO APPEAR Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
arXiv
2025
EveGuard: Defeating Vibration-based Side-Channel Eavesdropping with Audio Adversarial Perturbations
Jung-Woo Chang, Ke Sun, David Xia, Xinyu Zhang, Farinaz Koushanfar
PUBLISHED IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2025
arXiv

Workshop Papers, Manuscripts & Notes

2026
Frozen Policy Iteration for MDPs with Stochastic Transitions under Linear Qπ Realizability
David Xia, Ruizhong Qiu, Hanghang Tong
IN PREP Manuscript in preparation
PDF
2026
Predictability in Major League Sports: Betting Odds versus Mathematical Models
David Xia, AJ Hildebrand
SUBMITTED Mathematics and Sports (MAS) Journal
PDF
2026
Revitalizing Local Democracy: A Human-Centered Audit of LLMs in City Council Journalism
David Xia, Chris Maury
WORKSHOP HEAL Workshop at CHI 2026
PDF Workshop
2026
Algebraic Combinatorics Scribe Notes: The Cauchy Identity
David Xia
NOTES Course scribe notes
PDF
2026
Algebraic Combinatorics Scribe Notes: Schur Polynomials
David Xia, Oren Akresh
NOTES Course scribe notes
PDF

Selected Talks & Posters

2025
LLMs for Extracting Agenda Items from City Council Meetings and Generating Newsworthy Headlines
CMU HCII REU Symposium
Poster
2025
RSK linear operators and the Vershik–Kerov–Logan–Shepp curve
Algebra, Geometry & Combinatorics Day (Algecom) — presented by Duy Phan
Poster
2025
Predictability in Major Sports Leagues: Betting Market vs. Model-Based Predictions
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Poster Program
2024
Predictability in College Sports: Comparing the Accuracies of Prediction Models for College Football and Basketball
Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Math Conference — oral talk
Slides Program
2024
Predictability and Competitiveness in Sports Leagues
UIUC Undergraduate Research Symposium
Poster Program
2024
Predictability in College Sports
Illinois Mathematics Lab Research Symposium