Henry Yuen

Assistant Professor

Columbia University

About

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. I am a member of the CS Theory group. My research focuses on the interplay between quantum computing, complexity theory, cryptography, and information theory.

Nonlocal: A Quantum Computing Podcast

I gratefully acknowledge the support of the NSF CAREER program, Sloan Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and NSERC.

Teaching

Spring 2022
Frontiers of Quantum Complexity and Cryptography (COMS E6998)

Spring 2021
Introduction to Quantum Computing (COMS 4281)
BIU Winter School on Cryptography

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

Course notes: The Complexity of Entanglement (in progress).

Contact

email: firstname.lastname at columbia dot edu

Advising

Graduate students

Hamoon Mousavi (2019 - present)
Adrian She (2019 - present, co-advised with Toni Pitassi)
Gregory Rosenthal (2020 - present, co-advised with Ben Rossman)
Arthur Mehta (PhD 2019 - 2021. Assistant Professor at U. Ottawa starting in July 2022)

Undergraduate students

Yulong Li (2021 - present)

Past advisees

Cunlu Zhou (Postdoc 2019 - 2021. Currently postdoc at CQuIC at U. New Mexico.) Smik Patel (Undergrad 2020. Now PhD student at the U. of Toronto)
Hugh Goatcher (Undergrad 2020)
David Cui (Undergrad 2019 - 2020. Now PhD student at MIT)
Yvette De Sereville (Undergrad 2019 - 2020. Now Masters student at U. of Waterloo)
Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi (Undergrad 2019 - 2020. Now PhD student at U. Maryland)

Service

I am a co-organizer of the Columbia CS Theory Seminar. Please reach out if you’re interested in speaking!

Workshop Organization

Quantum Protocols: Testing & PCPs (virtual) workshop at The Quantum Wave in Computing semester program, which took place at the Simons Institute in Spring 2020.
Summer Cluster in Quantum Computation workshop at the Simons Institute in Summer 2021.
Extended Quantum Reunion workshop at Simons Institute in Summer 2022.

Program Committees

ITCS 2017, CCC 2018, TQC 2018, STOC 2020, QIP 2020, QIP 2021, CCC 2021, ITCS 2023, ICALP 2023