Yinan Li (李绎楠)

Yinan Li (李绎楠)

Assistant professor

Department of Information and Computational Sciences, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University

(photo courtesy CWI)

Biography

Since September 2022, I have been an assistant professor (tenure-track) at the Department of Information and Computational Sciences, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University (my Alma Mater). My office is Xi-Bei Lou 209.

From November 2020 to August 2022, I was a designated assistant professor (tokunin-jokyo, 特任助教) at Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya university. I was part of the QLEAP theory group lead by Professor François Le Gall.

From June 2018 to June 2020, I was a Postdoctoral researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, supervised by Prof. Ronald de Wolf and Dr. Michael Walter. I was also affiliated with the Research Center for Quantum Software (QuSoft).

I received my Ph.D. from Centre for Quantum Software and Information (QSI), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), supervised by Prof. Runyao Duan and Dr. Youming Qiao (and informally co-advised by Prof. Andreas Winter). Before that, I received my B.Sc. (with Hongyi honor) in 2014 from School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University.

Interests

  • Classical and quantum zero-error information theory
  • Classical and quantum algorithms (e.g. for group actions and for linear algebraic problems)
  • Noncommutative generalizations of the graph theory

Education

  • Ph.D. in Quantum Information, 2018

    University of Technology Sydney, Australia

  • B.Sc. in Mathematics, 2014

    Wuhan University, China

  • Exchange student, 2013

    Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Recent publications

Recent Talks

  • On a tracial version of Haemers bound. [Video][Slides]
    Beyond IID in Information Theory 9.
    Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS 2021).
    SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP21).

  • Improved Algorithms for Alternating Matrix Space Isometry: from Theory to Practice. [Video] [Slides]
    European Symposium on Algorithms, 2020.

  • The Haemers bound of graphs and noncommutative graphs, and quantum Shannon capacities. [Slides]
    Centre for the Mathematics of Quantum Theory (QMATH), University of Copenhagen, 2020.

  • The Haemers bound of noncommutative graphs. [Slides] [Video]
    23rd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing, Shenzhen, 2020.

  • Bipartite perfect matching, (non-)commutative Rank, and entanglement transformation. [Slides]
    Applied Math Youth Forum, Peking University, 2020.

  • Average-case algorithm for testing pseudo-isometry of alternating matrix tuples. [Slides]
    School of Mathematics, Statistics & Applied Mathematics, NUI Galway, 2019.