Director: Professor Jintai Ding. Currently Dean of the School of Mathematics and Physics at XJTLU, Visiting Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics, Yangtze River Scholar (Chair), and William Howard Taft Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Cincinnati. Prof. Ding is a top international expert in post-quantum cryptographic security.
Deputy Director: Mr Rui Liu. Visiting Professor at the School of Mathematics and Physics, XJTLU; Chairman/CEO of Shenzhen Langkong Yike Technology Co., Ltd. He is an expert in artificial intelligence, post-quantum security, and technology commercialisation and implementation. Responsible for AI-assisted post-quantum migration applications, post-quantum security industry infrastructure construction, and technology commercialisation and industrialisation.
Team members
Dr Neng Zeng: Assistant Professor of Scientific Computing in the Department of Applied Mathematics at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). She obtained her PhD from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and was awarded the honorary title as Jiangsu Shuangchuang PhD. Her research interests include coding theory, code-based cryptography, secret sharing, secure communication, and lightweight key encapsulation technology on FPGAs. She focuses on post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, smooth migration technologies, and system security verification. The related works published in top-tier conferences and journals such as ASIACRYPT, PKC, TCS and so on.
Dr Wenbin Zhang: Associate Professor at the Post-Quantum Migration Interdisciplinary Laboratory (PQC-X), XJTLU. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the National University of Singapore and had 4 years’ postdoc in NUS and 8 years’ experience in industry, including IBM, Ant Financial and Bytedance. His previous works covered across multiple areas, including post-quantum cryptography, blockchain and its privacy protection, privacy-preserving computation, and AI for security. He has series of original works in post-quantum cryptography and privacy protection of blockchain, and has invented over 100 granted patents. His current research focuses on post-quantum cryptography (especially multivariate schemes) and AI for lattice problems.
Dr Han Xia: Assistant Professor at the Post-Quantum Migration Interdisciplinary Laboratory (PQC-X), XJTLU. He received his Ph.D. from the State Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Defense at the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IIE, CAS). His research interests include lattice-based cryptography, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and privacy-preserving protocols. He is responsible for designing efficient lattice-based cryptosystems and FHE schemes. He has published papers in IACR venues such as TCC, TCHES, and security conferences such as AsiaCCS, EuroS&P, etc.
Dr Manoj Gyawali: Assistant Professor at the Post-Quantum Migration Interdisciplinary Laboratory (PQC-X), XJTLU. He holds a PhD from Roma Tre University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the National University of Singapore. His research areas include post-quantum cryptography (focusing on isogeny and lattice cryptography), number theory, and elliptic curve cryptography. He focuses on the application of algebraic geometry in cryptography and the development of secure post-quantum key exchange protocols.
Team building plan
In addition to existing members, the plan is to recruit 9 new professor/associate professor level researchers, 9 postdoctoral fellows, and 14 PhD students within the next year and a half. The target team size within three years is approximately 50+ members, including professors, associate professors, assistant professors, postdocs, PhD students, technical, and administrative staff.
External collaboration
Plans to establish cooperative relationships with institutions such as the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People’s Bank of China, the Institute of Information Engineering/Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, related cryptography teams at Chongqing University, and the FinTech department of China Construction Bank.
Director of the unit
Director: Professor Jintai Ding. Currently Dean of the School of Mathematics and Physics at XJTLU, Visiting Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics, Yangtze River Scholar (Chair), and William Howard Taft Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Cincinnati. Prof. Ding is a top international expert in post-quantum cryptographic security.
Deputy Director: Mr Rui Liu. Visiting Professor at the School of Mathematics and Physics, XJTLU; Chairman/CEO of Shenzhen Langkong Yike Technology Co., Ltd. He is an expert in artificial intelligence, post-quantum security, and technology commercialisation and implementation. Responsible for AI-assisted post-quantum migration applications, post-quantum security industry infrastructure construction, and technology commercialisation and industrialisation.
Team members
Dr Neng Zeng: Assistant Professor of Scientific Computing in the Department of Applied Mathematics at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). She obtained her PhD from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and was awarded the honorary title as Jiangsu Shuangchuang PhD. Her research interests include coding theory, code-based cryptography, secret sharing, secure communication, and lightweight key encapsulation technology on FPGAs. She focuses on post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, smooth migration technologies, and system security verification. The related works published in top-tier conferences and journals such as ASIACRYPT, PKC, TCS and so on.
Dr Wenbin Zhang: Associate Professor at the Post-Quantum Migration Interdisciplinary Laboratory (PQC-X), XJTLU. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the National University of Singapore and had 4 years’ postdoc in NUS and 8 years’ experience in industry, including IBM, Ant Financial and Bytedance. His previous works covered across multiple areas, including post-quantum cryptography, blockchain and its privacy protection, privacy-preserving computation, and AI for security. He has series of original works in post-quantum cryptography and privacy protection of blockchain, and has invented over 100 granted patents. His current research focuses on post-quantum cryptography (especially multivariate schemes) and AI for lattice problems.
Dr Han Xia: Assistant Professor at the Post-Quantum Migration Interdisciplinary Laboratory (PQC-X), XJTLU. He received his Ph.D. from the State Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Defense at the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IIE, CAS). His research interests include lattice-based cryptography, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and privacy-preserving protocols. He is responsible for designing efficient lattice-based cryptosystems and FHE schemes. He has published papers in IACR venues such as TCC, TCHES, and security conferences such as AsiaCCS, EuroS&P, etc.
Dr Manoj Gyawali: Assistant Professor at the Post-Quantum Migration Interdisciplinary Laboratory (PQC-X), XJTLU. He holds a PhD from Roma Tre University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the National University of Singapore. His research areas include post-quantum cryptography (focusing on isogeny and lattice cryptography), number theory, and elliptic curve cryptography. He focuses on the application of algebraic geometry in cryptography and the development of secure post-quantum key exchange protocols.
Team building plan
In addition to existing members, the plan is to recruit 9 new professor/associate professor level researchers, 9 postdoctoral fellows, and 14 PhD students within the next year and a half. The target team size within three years is approximately 50+ members, including professors, associate professors, assistant professors, postdocs, PhD students, technical, and administrative staff.
External collaboration
Plans to establish cooperative relationships with institutions such as the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People’s Bank of China, the Institute of Information Engineering/Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, related cryptography teams at Chongqing University, and the FinTech department of China Construction Bank.