Yaoyun Shi is a Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Scientist of Quantum Technologies of Alibaba Group. As the founding director of Aliyun Quantum Laboratory (AQL), he is building an international team to realize the revolutionary potentials of quantum information technologies. He also represents Alibaba Group in Zhejiang Laboratory as a founding Vice Director. Yaoyun receives his Bachelor’s degree from Peking University in 1997 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2001, both in Computer Science. After a postdoctoral scholarship at Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information, he joined the faculty of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, holding positions as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has made contributions to a diverse set of topics in theoretical quantum information science, including quantum algorithms and complexity, classical simulation of quantum systems, quantum universality, and quantum cryptography.