Yi-Kai Liu is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and a staff scientist in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST). He was co-director of QuICS from 2020 to 2025. Liu's research centers on quantum computation, in particular, quantum algorithms and complexity, quantum state tomography and cryptography. He also works on related topics in compressed sensing and machine learning. He received his doctorate in computer science from the University of California, San Diego in 2007.
