Talks
The Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP, 6 talks) is the premier and the
most competitive conference in quantum information science. The Conference on the Theory
of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC, 3 talks) and the Asian
Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS, 2 long talk + 8 short talks) are the leading
conferences in the field. The IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT, 3
talks) is the main event in information theory and Beyond IID in Information Theory is the main event in quantum information theory (BIID, 1 long talk + 3 short talks). The International Conference on Continuous
Optimization (ICCOPT, 1 talk) is a flagship conference of the Mathematical Optimization
Society.
In the following list, [*] indicates delivery by my co-author.
 talk highlights
2025
        
            An almost complete picture of quantum hypothesis testing with composite correlated hypotheses
        
        
            Shenzhen-Nagoya Workshop on Quantum Science 2025, Invited Talk, September 2025
The Chinese Univeristy of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Nagoya University
         
     
        
            Generalized quantum asymptotic equipartition and its applications
        
        
            Quantum Theory and Operator Theory 2025, Invited Talk, August 2025
Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA), Beijing, China
         
     
        
            Surpassing the fundamental limits of distillation with catalysts
        
        
            International Workshop on Quantum Characterization, Verification, and Validation, Invited Talk, August 2025
Fudan Univeristy, Shanghai, China
         
     
        
            Generalized quantum asymptotic equipartition and its applications
        
        
            AQIS 2025 long talk (top 5%), August 2025
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
         
     
        
            Surpassing the fundamental limits of distillation with catalysts
        
        
            AQIS 2025 contributed talk, August 2025
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
         
     
        
            Generalized quantum asymptotic equipartition and its applications
        
        
            BIID 2025 long talk, July 2025
Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
         
     
        
            Surpassing the fundamental limits of distillation with catalysts
        
        
            Mathematics of Quantum Information 2025 Invited Talk, July 2025
RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
         
     
        
            Dynamic quantum circuit compilation and remapping
        
        
            Quantum Circuit Design Automation Conference 2025 Invited Talk, May 2025
China Computer Federation (CCF), Shenzhen, China
         
     
        
            Generalized quantum asymptotic equipartition
        
        
            Seminar on Quantum Information and Optimization, April 2025
Tianyuan Mathematics Research Center, Kunming, China
         
     
        
            Generalized quantum asymptotic equipartition
        
        
            Quantum Resources 2025 Invited Talk, March 2025
The Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Jeju, Korea
         
     
        
            Generalized quantum asymptotic equipartition
        
        
            Analysis and Quantum Information Seminar, March 2025
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
         
     
        
            Generalized quantum asymptotic equipartition and its applications
        
        
            QIP 2025  contributed talk, February 2025
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
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            Generalized quantum asymptotic equipartition
        
        
            Seminar on Noncommutative Analysis and Its Applications, January 2025
Tianyuan Mathematics Research Center, Kunming, China
         
     
        
            Generalized quantum asymptotic equipartition
        
        
            Invited Plenary Talk at “100 Years of Matrix Mechanics” International Symposium, January 2025
Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF) in Sanya, China
         
     
        
            Dynamic quantum circuit compilation
        
        
            Forum on Optical Quantum Information Processing, January 2025
Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen, China
         
     
2024
        
            Dynamic quantum circuit compilation
        
        
            IQA Invited Talk, December 2024
International Quantum Academy, Shenzhen, China
         
     
        
            Dynamic quantum circuit compilation
        
        
            East Lake Quantum Seminar, November 2024
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
         
     
        
            Dynamic quantum circuit compilation
        
        
            CSIAM FM04 Session, October 2024
China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Nanjing, China
         
     
        
            Dynamic quantum circuit compilation
        
        
            Weekly Colloquium, September 2024
Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen, China
         
     
        
            Dynamic quantum circuit compilation
        
        
            Shenzhen-Nagoya Workshop on Quantum Science, September 2024
International Quantum Academy, Shenzhen & Nagoya Univeristy
         
     
        
            Symmetry-based quantum circuit mapping*
        
        
            Shenzhen-Nagoya Workshop on Quantum Science, September 2024
International Quantum Academy, Shenzhen & Nagoya Univeristy
         
     
        
            A new entanglement conversion distance for a complete characterization of entanglement embezzlement and closed-form expressions for entanglement distillation and dilution*
        
        
            QIP 2024  contributed talk, January 2024
Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), Taipei, China
         
     
2023
        
            Dynamic Quantum Circuit Compilation
        
        
            Quantum Seminar, invited talk, December 2023
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
         
     
2022
        
            Quantum NETwork: from theory to practice
        
        
            Quantum Software Seminar, invited talk, December 2022
Tsinghua University & Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
         
     
        
            Quantum NETwork: from theory to practice
        
        
            Baidu Technology Salon, 
invited talk, December 2022
Technology Management Department, Baidu, Beijing, China
 Video 
         
     
2021
        
            Finite Block Length Analysis on Quantum Coherence Distillation and Incoherent Randomness Extraction*
        
        
            ISIT 2021 contributed talk, July 2021
hosted online, Melbourne, Australia
         
     
        
            No-Go Theorems for Quantum Resource Purification*
        
        
            TQC 2021 contributed talk, July 2021
hosted online by the University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
         
     
        
            Geometric Rényi Divergence and its Applications in Quantum Channel Capacities
        
        
            TQC 2021 contributed talk, July 2021
hosted online by the University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
         
     
        
            No-Go Theorems for Quantum Resource Purification*
        
        
            QIP 2021  contributed talk, February 2021
hosted online by the
Technical University of Munich & the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology,
Munich, Germany
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 Video 
         
     
2020
        
            Finite Block Length Analysis on Quantum Coherence Distillation and Incoherent Randomness Extraction*
        
        
            AQIS 2020 contributed talk, December 2020
hosted online by the University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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 Video 
         
     
        
            Geometric Rényi Divergence and its Applications in Quantum Channel Capacities
        
        
            AQIS 2020 contributed talk, December 2020
hosted online by the University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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 Video 
         
     
        
            A Chain Rule for the Quantum Relative Entropy*
        
        
            AQIS 2020 contributed talk, December 2020
hosted online by the University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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 Video 
         
     
        
            Finite Block Length Analysis on Quantum Coherence Distillation and Incoherent Randomness Extraction*
        
        
            BIID 2020 contributed talk, November 2020
hosted online by the Stanford University, California, US
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 Video 
         
     
        
            Chain Rules for Quantum Relative Entropies and their Applications
        
        
            BIID 2020 contributed talk, November 2020
hosted online by the Stanford University, California, US
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 Video 
         
     
        
            Chain Rules for Quantum Relative Entropies and their Applications
        
        
            QIP 2020  contributed talk, January 2020
Southern University of Science and Technology & Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China
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2019
        
            Complementary Information Principle and Universal Uncertainty Regions
        
        
            AQIS 2019 contributed talk, August 2019
Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea 
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            Polynomial Optimization on the Sphere and Quantum Entanglement Testing
        
        
            ICCOPT 2019 organized talk, August 2019
Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany 
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            Polynomial Optimization on the Sphere and Quantum Entanglement Testing
        
        
            Summer Workshop on Quantum Algorithm and Software 
invited talk, August 2019
Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China
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 Video 
         
     
        
            Quantum Coherence Manipulation with Finite Resources
        
        
            IQC Seminar, March 2019
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada 
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2018
        
            Distillation of Quantum Coherence in Non-asymptotic Settings*
        
        
            AQIS 2018 contributed talk, September 2018 
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan 
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            Quantum Channel Simulation and the Channel’s Smooth Max-Information
        
        
            BIID 2018 contributed talk, July 2018 
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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 Video 
         
     
        
            Quantum Channel Simulation and the Channel’s Smooth Max-Information
        
        
            TQC 2018 contributed talk, July 2018 
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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            Quantum Channel Simulation and the Channel’s Smooth Max-Information
        
        
            ISIT 2018 contributed talk, June 2018 
Talisa Hotel in Vail, Colorado, USA 
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 Slides 
         
     
        
            Distillation of Quantum Coherence
        
        
            Rocky Mountain Summit on QI 2018 
invited talk, June 2018 
JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, USA 
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            On Finite Blocklength Converse Bounds for Classical Communication over Quantum Channels*
        
        
            ISIT 2018 contributed talk, June 2018 
Talisa Hotel in Vail, Colorado, USA 
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            Efficiently Computable Upper Bounds for Quantum Communication
        
        
            QIP 2018 contributed talk, January 2018 
QuTech, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 
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            On Converse Bounds for Classical Communication over Quantum Channels*
        
        
            QIP 2018 contributed talk, January 2018 
QuTech, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 
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2017
        
            Non-asymptotic Entanglement Distillation
        
        
            AQIS 2017 long talk (top 10%), September 2017 
National University of Singapore, Singapore 
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 Slides 
         
     
        
            Semidefinite Programming Converse Bounds for Quantum Communication
        
        
            AQIS 2017 contributed talk, September 2017 
National University of Singapore, Singapore 
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            Approximate Broadcasting of Quantum Correlations*
        
        
            AQIS 2017 contributed talk, September 2017 
National University of Singapore, Singapore 
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