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12000089
Person Info
First Name
Yi-Kai
Last Name
Liu
Organization Role / Title
QuICS Title
Adjunct Associate Professor
QuICS Organization Roles
RQS Organization Roles
Contact Information
Email
yikailiu@umd.edu
QuICS Contact Info
Email
yi-kai.liu@nist.gov
Phone
(301) 314-1850
Office Address

3100J Atlantic Building

About
QuICS Bio

Yi-Kai Liu is an Adjunct Associate Professor in 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.

RQS Bio

Yi-Kai Liu is co-director of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science and an adjunct associate professor in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland. He is also a staff scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Liu’s research focuses on quantum computation and theoretical computer science, in particular, quantum algorithms and complexity, quantum state tomography, machine learning and quantum cryptography. He received his doctorate in computer science from UC San Diego in 2007.

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