Cyber Chat — The Quantum Threat and Post-Quantum Defense
A compact talk on the quantum threat landscape, Landauer's principle, and reversible computation as the road to post-quantum defense.
Watch (5 min)|Xīyuán⟩ = |希⟩ ⊗ |源⟩ ↦ |⟩ ⊗ |⟩ — the wellspring of hope.
I am a Computer Science student at UVA with a background in computational imaging and quantum information theory. Driven by my current graduate coursework in quantum computing, I am focused on bridging numerical methods with quantum theory to tackle foundational challenges in quantum computation.
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Your right is to action alone;
— Winthrop Sargeant, The Bhagavad Gita, 2009
Never to its fruits at anytime.
Experience
Research Assistant · UVA BAL Lab (Prof. Tong)
PRISM: C++17 projected-gradient-descent engine for multivariate longitudinal missing data, with KKT convergence certification.
- C++17
- RcppArmadillo
- Convex Optimization
- KKT
- Longitudinal Statistics
Research Assistant · Yale (Prof. Liu's Group)
GPU-accelerated conic-constrained ADMM for lensless spectro-polarimetric reconstruction — a problem formally isomorphic to quantum state tomography.
- PyTorch
- ADMM
- Quantum State Tomography
- Convex Optimization
- HPC
Research Assistant · UVA (Prof. Ke's Group)
DFT for rare-earth magnetic anisotropy; designing RareEarth DB, a MongoDB + Fireworks materials database on UVA HPC.
- DFT
- MongoDB
- Fireworks
- Go
- Three.js
- Quantum Materials
Research Intern · UVA Biocomplexity Institute
SEIR epidemic simulations and graph neural networks for viral spread prediction on large contact networks.
- GNN
- Network Science
- Simulation
- SEIR
- Python
Projects
lensless-recon — Conic-Constrained QST Solver
GPU-accelerated ADMM solver recovering a 324-channel spectro-polarimetric datacube from a single lensless speckle image — a problem isomorphic to quantum state tomography via the Poincaré-Bloch map.
- PyTorch
- ADMM
- QST
- Lorentz Cone
- HPC
prism — Projected Gradient Imputation Engine
C++17 (RcppArmadillo) solver projecting longitudinal missing data onto the FIML mean and covariance structure, with KKT-certified projected gradient descent.
- C++17
- RcppArmadillo
- Convex Optimization
- KKT
- Statistics
difi — Git Diff Review Tool
A keyboard-centric Go CLI for interactive Git diff reviews with editor-aware navigation.
Y HN #5
★ 364
- Go
- Bubble Tea
- Git API
- CLI
- Nvim Plugin
stim — Quantum Circuit Simulator Contributor
Contributed to the high-performance stabilizer circuit simulator used across the quantum error correction community.
- Quantum Computing
- Stabilizer Circuits
- C++
- Open Source
sanjaya — Academic Graph Pipeline
Automated academic literature extraction via the OpenAlex Academic Graph API, Scrapy, and Playwright.
- Python
- Scrapy
- Playwright
- Data Engineering
- Academic Graph
zsweep — Minesweeper with Vim Motions
A terminal-based Minesweeper played entirely with Vim-style keyboard motions.
- Go
- TUI
- Vim Motions
- CLI
Neovim — Contributor
Multiple pull requests to the Neovim core, focused on Lua state and ENV variable configuration.
★ 90k+
- C
- Lua
- Open Source
- Systems
Talks
Cyber Chat Extended — Thermodynamics, Matrices, and the Collapse of RSA
The extended version: the thermodynamics of computation, matrix mechanics, and how RSA collapses under Shor's algorithm.
Watch (15 min)Certifications
AWS Certified AI Practitioner · Amazon Web Services
Validated expertise in deploying production-grade AI solutions on AWS. Focused on prompt engineering, fine-tuning Foundation Models via Amazon Bedrock, and implementing low-latency inference pipelines for real-time financial data processing.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · Amazon Web Services
Mastery of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, emphasizing security, high availability, and performance efficiency. Architected cloud-native environments leveraging Amazon Aurora for relational data and EC2/Lambda for scalable compute logic.
USACO Silver Division · USA Computing Olympiad
Competed in high-stakes algorithmic challenges focusing on computational efficiency and data structure optimization. Solved complex problems requiring O(n log n) performance using greedy algorithms, dynamic programming, and graph theory.
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