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Yi-Kai Liu (Fed)

Computer Scientist

Yi-Kai Liu is a researcher specializing in quantum computation, cryptography and machine learning. He has worked on tamper-resistant quantum devices for cryptography, compressed sensing methods for quantum tomography, quantum algorithms based on wavelet transforms, and the computational complexity of quantum chemistry. He is also a Fellow at QuICS, the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science at the University of Maryland. 

Publications

Status Report on the Fourth Round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

Author(s)
Gorjan Alagic, Maxime Bros, Pierre Ciadoux, David Cooper, Quynh Dang, Thinh Dang, John Kelsey, Jacob Lichtinger, Yi-Kai Liu, Carl Miller, Dustin Moody, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Angela Robinson, Hamilton Silberg, Daniel Smith-Tone, Noah Waller
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is selecting public-key cryptographic algorithms through a public, competition-like process. The new public

Resilience-Runtime Tradeoff Relations for Quantum Algorithms

Author(s)
Luis Pedro Garcia-Pintos, Tom O'Leary, Tanmoy Biswas, Jacob Bringewatt, Lukasz Cincio, Lucas Brady, Yi-Kai Liu
A leading approach to algorithm design aims to minimize the number of operations in an algorithm's compilation. One intuitively expects that reducing the number

Status Report on the First Round of the Additional Digital Signature Schemes for the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

Author(s)
Gorjan Alagic, Maxime Bros, Pierre Ciadoux, David Cooper, Quynh Dang, Thinh Dang, John M. Kelsey, Jacob Lichtinger, Carl A. Miller, Dustin Moody, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Angela Robinson, Hamilton Silberg, Daniel Smith-Tone, Noah Waller, Yi-Kai Liu
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of evaluating public-key digital signature algorithms through a public competition-like

Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard

Author(s)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Thinh Dang, Jacob Lichtinger, Yi-Kai Liu, Carl Miller, Dustin Moody, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Angela Robinson
Digital signatures are used to detect unauthorized modifications to data and to authenticate the identity of the signatory. In addition, the recipient of signed
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Patents (2018-Present)

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Created July 30, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022