Biography

Prof. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is winner of the A.M. Turing Award in 2000. He is member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also fellow of IACR.
Prof. Yao received a BS in Physics from National Taiwan University in 1967, a PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 1972, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1975. After serving on the faculty at MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley and Princeton, he then became a Professor at Tsinghua University in 2004，and founded "Tsinghua University Special Pilot CS Class", Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences and Center for Quantum Information.
His research interests include theory of computation and its application in cryptography and quantum computing. Prof. Yao has made research contributions in three ways: (1) creating important subfields for theoretical computer science, (2) helping lay the foundations of modern cryptography, and (3) resolving open problems and establishing new paradigms in circuit complexity, computational geometry, data structures, and quantum computing. Prof. Yao first developed the quantum communication complexity in 1993, which has laid the theoretical foundations for quantum computer. He developed the distributed quantum computation model in 1995, which has evolved into the basics of distributed quantum algorithms and quantum communication protocol security.
Prof. Yao was awarded the A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor for computer scientists, for his contributions to the theory of computation. He has also received numerous other honors and awards including the George Polya Prize, the first Donald E. Knuth Prize, and several honorary degrees from University of Waterloo, etc.

Abstract

Quantum information science has in recent years gained recognition in China as an important research area for the future. For example, two major research projects were launched in 2010 to develop quantum computer chips and scalable quantum networks. Tsinghua University, a premier university in China, inaugurated an interdisciplinary quantum information center dedicated to achieving excellence in all aspects of the field. In this presentation we survey the research landscape of quantum information in China, and highlight some of the promising current directions.

About CQI in Tsinghua University:
Center for Quantum Information (CQI), Tsinghua University was established on January 6, 2011. Led by Prof. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, winner of the A.M. Turing Award in 2000, CQI aims to develop a world-class platform for the teaching and research of quantum information in China. CQI adopts management methods of top universities and institutions. Its current research interests include genuine quantum networks, quantum computation, quantum simulation, quantum algorithm and complexity theory, and quantum operation. As CQI develops further, its research and cooperation will extend to other fields related to quantum techniques and information security.