CV

Employment

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  • School of Data Science
  • Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), Presidential Young Fellow
  • March 2024 - present, Shenzhen, China

Baidu Research, Baidu Inc.

  • Institute for Quantum Computing
  • Senior Researcher and Tech Lead (Industry Position)
  • November 2020 - December 2023, Beijing, China

University of Waterloo

  • Institute for Quantum Computing
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Advisor: Prof. Norbert Lütkenhaus
  • March 2020 - November 2020, Waterloo, Canada

University of Cambridge

  • Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Advisor: Prof. Hamza Fawzi
  • November 2018 - November 2019, Cambridge, UK

Education

University of Technology Sydney

Wuhan University

  • Bachelor in Mathematics
  • School of Mathematics and Statistics
  • September 2011 - June 2015, Wuhan, China

Research grants

  • 2025-2028, NSFC Major Research Plan (PI, 12.72% success rate), ongoing
  • 2025-2028, NSFC Young Scientists Fund Type C (PI, 15.54% success rate), ongoing
  • 2025-2028, 1+1+1 CUHK-CUHK(SZ)-GDST Joint Collaboration Fund (Core Member), ongoing
  • 2024-2027, Shenzhen Fundamental Research General Program (PI), ongoing
  • 2024-2027, Shenzhen Fundamental Research Key Program (Core Member), ongoing
  • 2024-2027, CUHK-Shenzhen University Development Fund (PI), ongoing
  • 2022-2023, Beijing High-level Talents Funding Program (PI), finished

Industry-academia projects

  • 2023-2024, Ministry of Education Industry-academia Collaborative Education Program, Collaborative program between Baidu (PI) and Wuhan University
  • 2023-2024, Ministry of Education Industry-academia Collaborative Education Program, Collaborative program between Baidu (PI) Shaanxi Normal University

Honors and awards

  • 2025 - Presidential Young Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
  • 2022 - Technology Pioneer Award (top 5), Technology Platform Group, Baidu Inc.
  • 2022 - Baidu Tier 1 Patent Inventor, Baidu Inc.
  • 2022 - Star of the Quarter, Technology Platform Group, Baidu Inc.
  • 2015 - Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems (QCIS) Scholarship
  • 2015 - University of Technology Sydney (UTS) International Research Scholarship
  • 2014 - China National Scholarship (top 0.2% among all the undergraduates in China)

PhD Supervision

  • Munan Zhang (202409-present, PhD student at CUHK-Shenzhen)
  • Hongyu Mao (202509-present, PhD student at CUHK-Shenzhen)

Intern students & research assistants

  • Jingtian Zhao (202507 - now)
  • Siqi Yao (202507 - now)
  • Xinrui Zhou (202507 - now)
  • Zhirui Gong (202507 - 202508)
  • Shuyuan Guan (202503-202507)
  • Guangya Hao (202410-202411)
  • Hongyu Mao (202410-202411)
  • Yuchen Lu (202308-202408, now master student at EPFL)
  • Zhiqiao Gong (202307-202309, now master student at UC San Diego)
  • Di Yu (202305-202311, now PhD student at the University of Hong Kong)
  • Zhiping Liu (202305-202307)
  • Yikai Zhao (202305-202307)
  • Tianlun Zhao (202305-202307)
  • Ruqi Shi (202211-202312, now PhD student at Ghent University)
  • Munan Zhang (202210-202408, now PhD student at CUHK-Shenzhen)
  • Yifei Li (202206-202212)
  • Jingtian Zhao (202111-202312)
  • Xiufan Li (202104-202206, now PhD student at CQT, NUS)
  • Daipengwei Bao (202107-202109)

Editor

Program committee

  • 15th Conference on Computational Mathematics of the Chinese Mathematical Society (CM 2025)
  • 25th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS 2025)
  • 23rd Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS 2023)

Journal referee

  • Nature Physics
  • Nature Communications
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review A
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
  • Annales Henri Poincare
  • Journal of Mathematical Physics
  • Quantum
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • Frontiers of Computer Science

Conference referee

  • Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP)
  • Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC)
  • Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
  • Beyond IID in Information Theory (BIID)

Grant referee

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

Conference and workshop organization

Beyond IID in Information Theory 2026 (upcoming)

  • Local Organizer
  • June 2026, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

Shenzhen-Nagoya Workshop on Quantum Science 2025

  • Local Organizer
  • September 2025, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

Forum on Statistics and Data Science

  • Organizing Committee
  • May 2024, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

Quantum Create 2022 (a quantum developer conference organized by Baidu)

  • Coordinator
  • August 2022, Beijing, China

Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography

  • Coordinator
  • July 2018, TQC, Sydney, Australia

International Workshop on Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Processing

  • Coordinator
  • November 2017, QCQIP, Beijing, China

Conference sponsorship

Managed Baidu's sponsorship of international conferences such as QIP2022 and QCrypt2021 and had particularly led efforts in conducting negotiations on sponsorship terms, and signing and executing sponsorship agreements, among other duties.

Consulting

Served as an academic consultant in Prof. Xin Wang’s research group in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) from January 11, 2024 to March 15, 2024.

Collaborators

I have had the privilege of collaborating with many leading experts in the field from around the world, and I am enthusiastic about building more connections and create greater impact in the future.

North America

Europe

Asia

Academic visit

Wuhan University

  • School of Mathematics and Statistics
  • Hosted by: Prof. Yinan Li
  • January 2024 - February 2024, Wuhan, China

Peng Cheng Laboratory

  • Center for Quantum Computing
  • Hosted by: Dr. Shenggen Zheng
  • November 2019 - January 2020, Shenzhen, China

University of Waterloo

  • Optical Quantum Communication Theory Group, Institute for Quantum Computing
  • Hosted by: Prof. Norbert Lütkenhaus
  • March 2019, Waterloo, Canada

University of Nottingham

  • Quantum Correlations Group in School of Mathematical Sciences
  • Hosted by: Prof. Gerardo Adesso
  • January 2018, Nottingham, UK

Imperial College London

  • Department of Computing
  • Hosted by: Prof. Mario Berta
  • January 2018, London, UK

University of Copenhagen

  • Centre for the Mathematics of Quantum Theory (QMATH)
  • Hosted by: Prof. Matthias Christandl
  • January 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark

Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS)
  • Hosted by: Prof. Xiaoming Sun
  • November 2017, Beijing, China