Yi-Kai Liu
Adjunct Associate Professor
Fellow

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- yi-kai.liu@nist.gov
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3100J Atlantic Building
- Office Phone:
- (301) 314-1850
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Bio
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.
Recent News
QuICS Fellow Honored by Washington Academy of Sciences
April 11, 2025QuICS Researchers Recognized with Research Impact Award
March 28, 2025QuICS Celebrates 10 Years of Research and Scholarship
March 14, 2025
Recent Publications
Efficiently Verifiable Quantum Advantage on Near-Term Analog Quantum Simulators
, , PRX Quantum, 6, (2025)PRXQuantum.6.010341.pdfReshaping the Quantum Arrow of Time
, , https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13615, (2025)Resilience–runtime tradeoff relations for quantum algorithms
, , Reports on Progress in Physics, 88, 037601, (2025)
Affiliated Research Centers
RQS