Cheng Chu is currently a postdoctoral researcher at North Carolina State University, where he works with Prof. Yuan Liu and Prof. Huiyang Zhou. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington in January 2026, advised by Prof. Fan Chen and Prof. Lei Jiang. He received his M.S. and B.S. degrees from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China, in 2021 and 2018, respectively. His research lies primarily in quantum computing, with an emphasis on quantum computer architecture, quantum system security, and quantum neural network design.

Cheng’s research has received the Best Paper Award, 3rd Place, at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), and was selected as a Best Paper Finalist at the 2024 Design Automation Conference (DAC).

I am always open to research collaborations and happy to chat about potential research ideas.

News

• I joined North Carolina State University as a postdoctoral researcher. 02/2026
• I graduated from Indiana University Bloomington. 01/ 2026
• I defended my Ph.D. dissertation. 11/2025
• QNBAD: Quantum Noise-induced Backdoor Attacks against Zero Noise Extrapolation was accepted by NDSS 2026. 10/2025
• BVQC: A Backdoor-style Watermarking Scheme for Variational Quantum Circuits was accepted by QCE 2025. 07/2025
• LSTM-QGAN: Scalable NISQ Generative Adversarial Network was accepted by ICASSP 2025. 12/2024
• OFHE: An Electro-Optical Accelerator for Discretized TFHE was accepted by ISLPED 2024. 08/2024
• TITAN: A Distributed Large-Scale Trapped-Ion NISQ Computer was chosen as the best paper nominee by DAC 2024. 06/2024
• I won the Jose Blakeley PhD Summer Research Award ($4400) 05/2024
• TITAN: A Distributed Large-Scale Trapped-Ion NISQ Computer is accepted by DAC 2024. 02/2024

Honors and Awards

• 2024    DAC Best Paper Finalists
• 2024    61st DAC Young Fellow
• 2024    Jose Blakeley PhD Summer Research Award
• 2023    QCE Best Paper Award - 3rd Place