Kai-Min Chung

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Name:Kai-Min Chung
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Kai-Min Chung is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Information Science (IIS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Before joining IIS, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cornell University from 2010 to 2013, supported by a Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship, and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University. He was also a Simons Research Fellow at the Simons Institute at Berkeley during the Cryptography program in summer 2015.

His research interests lie in cryptography and its interplay with complexity theory and quantum theory, with a recent focus on quantum cryptography. His research also extends to the verification of quantum circuits and programs. His work has been published at leading conferences, including STOC, FOCS, CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, CCC, QIP, TCC, and PLDI. A paper he co-authored received a Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI 2023.

He has served on the program committees of major cryptography conferences, including CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, and TCC. He served as Program Co-Chair of ASIACRYPT 2024 and has co-organized several conferences, including ASIACRYPT 2022 and RWC 2026. In addition, he has served on the steering committees of ASIACRYPT, TQC, and QCrypt.

Country:Taiwan
Affiliation:Academia Sinica
Research interests:Cryptography, Complexity theory, Quantum theory

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