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Hello there, My name is Matthew HongORCID iD icon . I am a Ph.D. student at MIT adviced by Professor Bonnie Berger and Professor Yael Tauman Kalai. I am interested in applied cryptography and the general field of theoretical computer science (TCS). I am exploring in particular biomedical privacy.

I received my B.Eng. from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences at Tsinghua University, China.

Previously, I was at Professor Yu Yu’s group as a research assistant in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021. I was fortunate to work under the supervision of Professor Yuval Ishai and Professor Amit Sahai in 2019 for undergraduate research experiences. Before that, I spent a rewarding summer 2018 at Professor Yu Yu’s crypto group in SJTU, Shanghai.

I occasionally create poems and take photographs.

Function from the Library

Have you heard about Functions from The Library? It is a computer scientific version of Erdos’s “The book”. Take a closer inspection of my Github icon to learn more about the TheInstantSort method that runs in time on a RAM machine on any sequence. The function is private in The Library though. Join me in the journey on the search for more such methods!

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About the blog site

Make sure to read Terms and Conditions before using this site. The blog contents are inherently experimental as you may find poems, jokes or serious expositions on technical topics (e.g. algorithms) interleaved. What is worse is that blog posts are updated irregularly, and may contain typos and intended/unintended errors. Certain series of posts are indefinitely suspended, but the author will try his best to finish them.

I will be very glad to hear your comments! Please contact me via email if you have got any.

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