I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Portland State University. During 2013 to 2016, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. I completed my PhD in 2013 in Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, under the supervision of Sean Hallgren. Prior to that, I received my bachelor’s degree from University of Science & Technology of China in 2008.

My research interests lie in cryptography, especially provable-security in the presence of quantum attacks, quantum algorithms, computational complexity and theoretical computer science broadly. I’m grateful to the National Science Foundation (including a Career Award) and the SONY Group for funding my research.

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  • <2025-07-15> Chuhan Lu successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congrats Dr. Lu! Big thanks to the great committee: Drs. Ameeta Agrawal, Shravas Rao, Penghui Yao and Henry Yuen
  • <2025-05-30> I’m happy to be awarded a 2025—2026 Faculty Development Grant at Portland State University.

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