Yixin Shen

About Me

I am a permanent researcher (chargé de recherche) at Inria Rennes in the CAPSULE team. I mainly study quantum algorithms in the context of cryptanalysis. I am particularly interested in problems related to lattice-based cryptography. I am also interested in broader topics such as theoretical computer science or computational complexity.

Previously, I was a research fellow (EPSRC Fellow) at King's College London. Before that, I was a post-doc then a research fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, hosted by Pr Martin R. Albrecht. Prior to that, I did my PhD at IRIF, Université Paris Cité under the supervision of Frédéric Magniez.

I have funding for one PhD student, one postdoc (two years) and several Master internships. Please contact me at my new email address: yixin.shen at inria.fr.

Curriculum Vitæ

You can download my CV here.

Grant

I was the principal investigator of EP/W02778X/1 (08/2022-07/2027) before I moved to INRIA Rennes.

PhD Students

Ethan Davies (2022-) (co-advised with Alastair Kay)

Service

Program committee member: INDOCRYPT 2022, 2023, 2024.

Conference Reviewer: TQC 2019, ANTS 2020, SODA 2021, ICALP 2021, CRYPTO 2021, ASIACRYPT 2021, SAC 2021, TQC 2022, ASIACRYPT 2022, TCC 2022, SODA 2022, PKC 2022, CRYPTO 2023 (X2), ASIACRYPT 2023, EUROCRYPT 2024, CRYPTO 2024 (X2), TQC 2024, QCNC 2024, ASIACRYPT 2024, INSCRYPT 2024, EUROCRYPT 2025 (X3), PKC 2025.

Journal Reviewer: ACM Transaction on Quantum Computing, Quantum, Designs Codes and Cryptography, SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry.

Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College.

Seminar organizer (2021-2024): ENSL/CWI/KCL/IRISA Joint Online Cryptography seminars.

Workshop organizer: QUANTALGO Workshop 2018.

Teaching Assistant