Dr. Tongyang Li joined Peking University in July 2021 and is currently an assistant professor at Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, Peking University. Previously he was a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received Master and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland in 2018 and 2020, respectively. He received Bachelor of Engineering from Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University and Bachelor of Science from Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, both in 2015. Dr. Tongyang Li’s research focuses on designing quantum algorithms for machine learning and optimization, as well as performing quantum algorithms on current noisy, intermediate-scale quantum devices (NISQ). He has published more than 40 papers at Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Journal of the ACM, Physical Review Letters, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, STOC, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, and other top venues. He has 9 contributed talks at QIP.