Luowen Qian
MCS 138C
111 Cummington Mall
Boston, MA 02215
Email: <firstname>q@bu.edu
I am a Ph.D. student at Boston University. I am very fortunate to have Ran Canetti as my advisor. My research interest includes quantum computation, cryptography, and other aspects of theoretical computer science in general.
Teaching
Publications
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Cryptography from Pseudorandom Quantum States
Prabhanjan Ananth, Luowen Qian, Henry Yuen
CRYPTO 2022 (to appear) [ePrint]
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Beating Classical Impossibility of Position Verification
Jiahui Liu, Qipeng Liu, Luowen Qian
ITCS 2022 [arXiv]
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Tight Quantum Time-Space Tradeoffs for Function Inversion
Kai-Min Chung, Siyao Guo, Qipeng Liu, Luowen Qian
FOCS 2020 [ECCC]
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Lower Bounds for Function Inversion with Quantum Advice
Kai-Min Chung, Tai-Ning Liao, Luowen Qian
ITC 2020 [arXiv]
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Adaptively Secure Garbling Schemes for Parallel Computations
Kai-Min Chung, Luowen Qian
TCC 2019 [ePrint]
Talks & Posters
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Cryptography from Pseudorandom Quantum States
UC Berkeley Theory CS Seminar (January 11, 2022) [Slides]
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Beating Classical Impossibility of Position Verification
QIP 2022 contributed talk (March 10, 2022) [Video]; Ottawa QUASAR seminar (March 4, 2022); ITCS 2022 (February 2, 2022) [Video]; Charles River Crypto Day (November 19, 2021); BUsec Seminar (September 29, 2021) [Slides]
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Tight Quantum Time-Space Tradeoffs for Function Inversion
BU Algorithms and Theory Seminar (April 5, 2021)
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Lower Bounds for Function Inversion with Quantum Advice
ITC 2020 (June 17, 2020), QIP 2020 (poster)
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Adaptively Secure Garbling Schemes for Parallel Computations
TCC 2019 (December 4, 2019), NY CryptoDay (October 18, 2019)
Manuscripts
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Nonuniform Linear Depth Circuits Decide Everything
Luowen Qian
For April Fool's day, 2020 [viXra]
Misc
GitHub, CV
Perpetually under construction 🚧