I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.

I am mainly interested in cryptography and other related topics in theoretical computer science. Prior to that, I was also interested in functional programming and program verification.

• On the Hardness of LWE with Trapdoor Hints and Applications to Fuzzy Cryptography
  Divesh Aggarwal, Aayush Jain, Huijia Lin, Yuetian Wu
  67th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2026)
• The Cost of Rewinding for Succinct Arguments: Strict-Time Barriers and Expected-Time Security
  Alessandro Chiesa, Ziyi Guan, William Wang, Yuetian Wu
  Cryptology ePrint Archive [link]

• Stanford University
  Ph.D. in Computer Science
  September 2026 – Present
• Peking University
  B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Turing class
  GPA: 3.904/4.0, Ranking: 1/34
  September 2022 – June 2026
• Carnegie Mellon University
  Undergraduate Exchange Program in Computer Science
  GPA: 4.0/4.0
  August 2024 – December 2024

• 2024: National Scholarship of China
• 2024: Merit Student Pacesetter of Peking University
• 2023: Merit Student of Peking University
• 2023: Hua Tai Securities Technology Scholarship
• 2023: PKU XueErSi Boya Scholarship
• 2022: First-Class Freshman Scholarship of Peking University
• 2022: Dean's Scholarship for Freshmen in School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
• 2020: Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad, Silver Medal
• 2020: National Olympiad in Informatics (in China), Bronze Medal