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Bo-Yin Yang
楊柏因
Born (1969-02-14) February 14, 1969
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Alma materNational Taiwan University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known forPost-quantum cryptography
AwardsIACR[1] Fellow (2025)

NSTC[2] Outstanding Research Award (2024)

Academia Sinica Investigator Award (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science

Cryptography
Mathematics

Computer Security
InstitutionsInstitute of Information Science, Academia Sinica

Bo-Yin Yang (Chinese: 楊柏因; born February 14, 1969) is a Taiwanese-American cryptographer and applied mathematician. He is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Information Science,[3] Academia Sinica, and also teaches as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. His research focuses on cryptographic implementation, algebraic cryptanalysis, and post-quantum cryptography.

Early life and education

Yang was born in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. He received his primary and secondary education in Taiwan. In 1983, he entered the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University after being permitted to skip the ninth grade. He later entered the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University after skipping the final year of high school, graduating in 1987 at the age of 18.

Yang subsequently pursued graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1991.

Career

After receiving his Ph.D., Bo-Yin Yang taught in the Department of Mathematics at Tamkang University from 1992 to 2006. After 2002, he shifted his research focus from combinatorics to cryptography. In 2006, he joined the Institute of Information Science[3] at Academia Sinica as an Associate Research Fellow, was promoted to Research Fellow in 2011, and became a Distinguished Research Fellow in 2024.

Research

Yang's research has focused on cryptographic implementation, algebraic cryptanalysis, and post-quantum cryptography.

He was among the co-authors of Ed25519, a digital signature scheme introduced in 2011 and later standardized in FIPS 186-5.

In 2019, Yang and Daniel J. Bernstein proposed the Bernstein–Yang algorithm (safegcd), a constant-time algorithm for modular inversion that has been adopted in several cryptographic software implementations.

Yang has also contributed to research on multivariate cryptography, algebraic cryptanalysis, and formally verified cryptographic software, including implementations of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms.

Professional service

Yang has served in leadership and organizational roles within the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

He has been involved in the organization of major cryptography conferences including CHES, Asiacrypt, QCrypt, TCC, PQCrypto, PKC, and Real World Crypto.

He has also served as a director of the IACR and held program committee leadership positions at several international conferences.

Honors and awards

  • NSTC Outstanding Research Award (2024)
  • IACR Fellow (2025)

References

  1. "The International Association for Cryptologic Research". iacr.org. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
  2. "「國家科學及技術委員會全球資訊網」(NSTC)". 國家科學及技術委員會-全球資訊網 National Science and Technology Council. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
  3. "Institute of Information Science".