- Papers: 'Adversarially robust quantum state learning' accepted to FOCS 2025; 'Quantum State Learning Implies Circuit Lower Bounds' accepted to COLT 2025 and TQC 2024; 'Efficient learning of t-doped stabilizer states with single-copy measurements' published on Quantum
- Awards: NSF CAREER Award 2024; Google Research Scholar 2023; NSF Award 2022 (with Dr. Fang Song); DOE Quantum Testbed Pathfinder Award 2023
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, 2022 - present
- Assistant Professor, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, 2021 - 2022
- Hartree Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), University of Maryland, 2020 - 2021, supervised by Dr. Andrew Childs
- Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Austin, 2018 - 2020, supervised by Dr. Scott Aaronson
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Penn State University, advisor: Dr. Sean Hallgren
- Bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University
Background
Research interests include quantum algorithms, quantum complexity, and quantum cryptography. Devoted to understanding the capabilities, limits of quantum computing, and how it could change computer science.
Miscellany
Enjoys playing various sports such as baseball, soccer, badminton, basketball, and swimming. Was part of the soccer and softball teams in college. Also enjoys cooking, reading history, and listening to music or radio.