Henry Yuen

Assistant Professor

University of Toronto

About

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics (joint appointments) at the University of Toronto. I am a member of the CS Theory group.

My research focuses on the interplay between quantum computing, complexity theory, cryptography, and information theory.

Update: I will be joining the Computer Science Department at Columbia University in January 2021.

Nonlocal: A Quantum Computing Podcast

MIP* Wiki

Teaching

Fall 2020 Advanced Topics in Quantum Information Theory (CSC2429H/MAT1752H)

Contact

email: hyuen at cs dot toronto dot edu
office: Sandford Fleming 2302A

Advising

Postdocs

Cunlu Zhou

Graduate students

Arthur Mehta
Hamoon Mousavi
Adrian She (co-advised with Toni Pitassi)
Gregory Rosenthal (co-advised with Ben Rossman)

Undergraduate students

Smik Patel (Summer 2020. PhD student at the University of Toronto)
Hugh Goatcher (Summer 2020)
David Cui (2019 - 2020)
Yvette De Sereville (2019 - 2020. Masters student at University of Waterloo)
Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi (2019 - 2020. PhD student at University of Maryland)

Service

Workshop Organization

I co-organized the Quantum Protocols: Testing & PCPs (virtual) workshop at The Quantum Wave in Computing semester program, which took place at the Simons Institute in Spring 2020.

Program Committees

ITCS 2017, CCC 2018, TQC 2018, STOC 2020, QIP 2020, QIP 2021, CCC 2021