Henry Yuen
Henry Yuen is the Srivani Family Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he studies quantum computing, quantum information theory, computational complexity theory, and cryptography. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2016 and previously held a postdoctoral position at UC Berkeley and an assistant professorship at the University of Toronto. He is best known for co-authoring a landmark 2020 proof in complexity theory regarding the computational power of quantum entanglement and for his ongoing work developing a new complexity theory for quantum-input and quantum-output problems.
“I didn't just hear about these problems from my friends or from seminars. I feel their importance in my bones; I deeply care about the answers to these questions.”
“In apparent tension with Theme 4, OpenAI's unreleased "Astra" model solved ten open problems across high-dimensional geometry, coding theory, group theory, quantum complexity, and more — domains where creativity was assumed to be essential.”
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