Yinan Li (李绎楠)

Yinan Li (李绎楠)

Assistant professor

School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University

(photo courtesy CWI)

Biography

I am an assistant professor (tenure-track) at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University. I am also affiliated with the Center for Applied Mathematics in Hubei, Hubei Key Laboratory of Computational Science and Wuhan Institute of Quantum Technology.

From November 2020 to August 2022, I was a designated assistant professor (tokunin-jokyo, 特任助教) at the Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University. I was part of the QLEAP theory group led by Professor François Le Gall.

From June 2018 to June 2020, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, supervised by Prof. Ronald de Wolf and Prof. Michael Walter. I was also affiliated with the Research Center for Quantum Software (QuSoft).

I received my Ph.D. from Centre for Quantum Software and Information (QSI), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), supervised by Prof. Runyao Duan and Dr. Youming Qiao (and informally co-advised by Prof. Andreas Winter). Before that, I received my B.Sc. (with Hongyi honor) in 2014 from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University.

With François Le Gall and Joshua Maglione, I am co-organizing Shonan Meeting 246.

Work Experiences

  • Assistant Professor (tenure-track), 2022.9–present

    Wuhan University

  • Designated Assistant Professor, 2020.11–2022.8

    Nagoya University

  • Postdoctoral Researcher,
    2018.6–2020.8

    Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)

Education

  • Ph.D. in Quantum Information, 2018

    University of Technology Sydney, Australia

  • B.Sc. in Mathematics, 2014

    Wuhan University, China

  • Exchange student, 2013

    Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Publications

  • A quantum-assisted framework for PDE-based Bayesian inverse problems
    Dong An, Y. L., Pucheng Tang, and Yunfeng Xiong
    arXiv:2608.27028, submitted, 2026

  • Quantum simulation of slow analytic time-dependent Hamiltonians
    Chenhao Zhao, Y. L., and Dong An
    arXiv:2608.17653, submitted, 2026

  • On the average-case complexity landscape for Tensor-Isomorphism-complete problems over finite fields
    Tiange Li, Y. L., Youming Qiao, Dacheng Tao, and Yingjie Wang
    arXiv:2604.00591, submitted, 2026

  • No-go theorems for universal quantum state purification via classically simulable operations
    Keming He, Chengkai Zhu, Hongshun Yao, Jinguo Liu, Y. L., and Xin Wang
    In Physical Review Letters, 2026

  • Simulation of Adjoints and Petz Recovery Maps for Unknown Quantum Channels
    Chengkai Zhu, Ziao Tang, Guocheng Zhen, Y. L., Ge Bai, and Xin Wang
    arXiv:2602.05828, submitted, 2026

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