Stephanie Wehner

stephcut.jpgAssistant Professor

School of Computing

National University of Singapore

 

Principal Investigator

Centre for Quantum Technologies

My research group: Website

 

CV available upon request.

 

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Contact

Block S15, 3 Science Drive 2

Singapore, 117543

 

Office: CQT, 04-06

Phone: +65 6601 1478

Fax: +65 6516 6897 (Attn: Stephanie Wehner)

Email: wehner at comp dot nus dot edu /dot sg

 

Latest news

We were awarded a large Tier 3A grant by SingaporeÕs Ministry of Education!

[older news]

 

Recent professional activities

Co-Founder and Steering Committee QCRYPT 2011, 2012 (chair), 2013

Steering Committee QIP 2013-2016

Program Committee QIP (2010, 2012), AQIS (2010,2011,2012,2013), ICITS (2012,2013)

Organizer QCRYPT 2012, Workshop on Cryptography from Storage Imperfections 2010

[see my group website for upcoming events and activities]

 

Recent selected publications

Quantum to classical randomness extractors [abstract]

M. Berta, O. Fawzi and S. Wehner

Proceedings of Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2012

 

The uncertainty principle determines the non-locality of quantum mechanics [abstract]        

J. Oppenheim and S. Wehner

Science, vol 330, no 6007, pp. 1072-1074 (2010)

 

Experimental implementation of bit commitment in the noisy-storage mode [abstract]

N. Ng, S. Joshi, C. Chia, C. Kurtsiefer and S. Wehner

Nature Communications 3, 1326 (2012)

 

All publications [pdf] (Feb 2013). My arXiv author page.

 

Teaching

 

Fall 2012

CS3236 Introduction to Information Theory

Spring 2012                                           

CS6209 Topics in Cryptography

QT5198 Seminar on Quantum Information

Special term 2010/2011

CS3235 Computer Security

Fall 2010

SP2171 Discovering Science

                 

Current students

                 

PhD

á      Tanvirul Islam (NUS Computer Science)

á      Jed Kaniewski (NUS Physics)

á      Nelly Ng (NUS Physics, RA)

á      Corsin Pfister (NUS Physics)

 

MSc/Honors/UROPS

á      Nguyen Truong Duy (NUS Maths and Computer Science)

 

            Past students

                                   

MSc/Honors

á      Adrian Hutter – now PhD Student at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Thesis: Understanding thermalization from decoupling (2011) [pdf]

á      Nelly Ng (awards) – now PhD Student

Thesis: Practical quantum cryptography: demonstration of secure commitments in the noisy storage model (2012) [pdf]

á      Corsin Pfister – now PhD Student

Thesis: One simple postulate implies that every polytopic state space is classical (2012) [pdf]

 

Joint supervision (Caltech, PhD)

á      Prabha Mandayam  - now  post-doctoral researcher at IMS, Chennai

á      Greg Ver Steeg – now researcher at University of Southern California

 

Past activities

á      Brief personal history