News

Dec 2025

Happy to serve on the program committee of SCN 2026 to be hosted in the historic town of Amalfi, Italy.

Jul 2025

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.

May 2025

Happy to be awarded a 2025–2026 Faculty Development Grant at Portland State University.

Mar 2025

Serving on the program committee of AQIS 2025 to be held in Hong Kong.

Mar 2025

Serving on the program committee of QCE 2025 Quantum Algorithms track, Albuquerque, USA.

Feb 2025

Serving on the program committee of TQC 2025 to be held in Bengaluru, India.

Aug 2024

Serving on the program committee of CT-RSA 2025.

Jun 2024

Serving on the program committee of Eurocrypt 2025 to be held in Madrid, Spain.

Apr 2024

Honored to receive PSU’s 2024 Early Career Research Award.

Mar 2024

Serving on the program committee of QCrypt 2024 to be held in Vigo, Spain.

Jan 2024

Serving on the program committee of TQC 2024 to be held in Okinawa, Japan.

Dec 2023

Organizing NII Shonan Meeting No. 198 New Directions in Provable Quantum Advantages with François Le Gall and Penghui Yao, December 11–15, 2023.

Sep 2023

Serving on the program committee of PKC 2024 to be held in Sydney, Australia.

Mar 2023

Serving on the program committee of QCrypt 2023 at the University of Maryland.

Jan 2023

Joint postdoc opening with Nai-Hui Chia. Candidates with a strong record on complexity and cryptography are encouraged to apply.

Jul 2022

Serving on the program committee of the Quantum Crypto Workshop affiliated with Asiacrypt 2022.

May 2022

Participating in the Summer Cluster: Lattices and Beyond and Extended Reunion: The Quantum Wave in Computing at the Simons Institute, May 23 – Jun 24, 2022.

Apr 2022

Giving a lecture at the IPAM Graduate Summer School on Post-quantum and Quantum Cryptography, July 25–29, 2022.

Mar 2022

Received a Faculty Innovation Award via the Sony Research Award program. Thanks Sony Group!

Mar 2022

Serving on the program committee of Asiacrypt 2022.

Feb 2021

Serving on the program committee of Crypto 2021.

Mar 2020

Honored to receive the NSF CAREER Award to explore quantum complexity and cryptography.

Mar 2020

QCrypt 2020 submission server is open.

Dec 2019

Serving on the program committee of Crypto 2020.

Aug 2019

Slides of the tutorial at QCrypt 2019 now available under Research.

Jul 2017

Serving on the program committee of PQCrypto 2018.

Jul 2017

New result on optimal quantum query lower bounds for finding collisions in non-uniform random functions. Read more.

Jun 2017

NMAC and HMAC remain quantum-secure, as we prove in our Crypto’17 paper. Check it out.

Feb 2017

Talk on ZK for QMA at QIP’17 now available on YouTube.

Jan 2017

Happy to serve on the program committee of Asiacrypt 2017 in Hong Kong.

Jan 2017

Organized a one-day event on quantum computing and cryptography at Portland, OR. Details.

Sep 2016

Serving on the program committee of QIP 2017 at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA.

Sep 2016

Serving on the program committee of PKC 2017 in Amsterdam.