Youming Qiao obtained his PhD in computer science from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tsinghua University in 2012. His advisor was Andrew Yao. Before that, he obtained his bachelor's degree in computer science from Tsinghua University. Having served as a postdoc in the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, he is currently a lecturer at the Centre for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems, University of Technology, Sydney.