Ching-Yi Lai

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Ching-Yi Lai is a Professor at the Institute of Communications Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan, where he leads a national flagship quantum research project on fault-tolerant quantum computation architectures. His research spans classical and quantum error-correcting codes, decoding algorithms, fault-tolerant quantum computation, quantum communication and cryptography, and quantum information theory. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2013. He was then a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Technology Sydney and at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, before joining National Chiao Tung University (now NYCU) as an Assistant Professor in 2018. His honours include Taiwan's Young Scholar and Excellent Young Scholar Fellowships, and best paper awards for young scholars from the IEEE Information Theory Society and Communications Society Taipei chapters.