Name:Xiaodi Wu

Bio:

I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Oregon. I am also an affiliated faculty at Center for Cyber Security and Privacy, University of Oregon.

I received my Phd in theoretical computer science in 2013 (advisor: Yaoyun Shi) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I received my B.S. degree in mathematics and physics in 2008 from the Academic Talent Program, Tsinghua University.

Before coming to Oregon, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2013 to 2015 (advisor: Aram Harrow, Scott Aaronson, Edward Farhi and Peter Shor). I was also a Simons Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at Berkeley, for the program of Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity in Spring 2014 (advisor: Umesh Vazirani). I also spent two summers at Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo as a student intern (advisor: John Watrous).

Country:United States

Affiliation:University of Oregon, USA

Research interests:quantum information and computation, quantum cryptography, quantum programming languages