Lijie Chen

Research Areas

Research Centers

Teaching Schedule

Fall 2025

Biography

I have a broad interest in theoretical computer science. In particular, I am interested in classical and quantum computational complexity theory and their connections to other fields of computer science and quantum physics.

I am a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley, hosted by Avishay Tal and Umesh V. Vazirani. I got my Ph.D. from MIT, and I was very fortunate to be advised by Ryan Williams. Prior to that, I received my bachelor's degree from Yao Class at Tsinghua University.

At Tsinghua University, I was advised by Prof. Jian Li, working on Multi-Armed Bandits. During the Spring of 2016, I was visiting MIT, working under the supervision of Prof. Scott Aaronson on Quantum Complexity.

Education

  • 2022, Ph.D., Computer Science, MIT