Professor Jintai Ding is the Dean of the School of Mathematics and Physics at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and a Charles Phelps Taft Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati.
He is one of the designers of the only quantum-resistant key establishment standard by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ML-KEM (FIPS 203), which was formerly called Kyber. He is the inventor and patent owner of the first quantum key exchange which was one of the two patents licensed to NIST for ML-KEM.
Before joining XJTLU, he was a full professor at Tsinghua University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1995. His research was in quantum affine algebras, where he was credited for the invention of the Ding-Iohara-Miki algebra. His current interest is in post-quantum cryptography. He and his colleagues developed Rainbow signature, a third-round candidate and finalist in the NIST post-quantum standardisation process. He and his colleagues broke a NIST second-round post-quantum signature candidate LUOV and a third-round candidate GeMSS (HFEv-), for which they won the best paper honourable mention award for Crypto 2021. He also served as co-chair for the second, 10th and 11th International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography.
