Andrej Bogdanov is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Communications at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in cryptography, pseudorandomness, and sublinear-time algorithms. Andrej obtained his BS and MEng degrees from MIT in 2001 and his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2005. Before joining CUHK in 2008, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, at DIMACS (Rutgers University), and at ITCS (Tsinghua University). He was a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2013 and a long-term program participant at the Simons Institute in 2017.