Professor, Department of
Mathematical
Sciences,
Clemson University.

Education
BSc, MSc (83,86, Mathematics, Sichuan University, China).
PhD (93, Combinatorics
and Optimization,
University of Waterloo).
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (93-95,
Computer
Science,
University of Toronto).

Teaching
 
 Fall 2012       
 MTHSC 850: Topics in Coding Theory 
Previous
courses

Research Interests
  - Finite fields
 
  - Cryptography
 
  - Coding theory
 
  - Commutative algebra
 
  - Symbolic computation
 
  - Quantum computation
 
  - Algorithmic number theory
 
Sample problems include the discrete logarithm problem,  systems
of polynomials (linear and
nonlinear), 
factoring integers and polynomials (univariate and multivariate), 
primary decomposition, decoding of algebraic geometry codes, quantum
algorithms for the hidden
subgroup problem, reverse engineering of gene networks.
Publications available
here.
Professional Activities
 On the Editorial Board of 
Book:
Applications of Finite Fields Alfred J. Menezes, Ian F. Blake, XuHong Gao,
Ronald C. Mullin, Scott A. Vanstone, and Tomic Yaghoobian, Kluwer,
Boston/Dordrecht/Lancaster,
1993.
PhD Thesis: Normal Bases over Finite Fields gzipped
PS file (413K) or
PDF
file (559K) .
Seminar:   Algebra
and Discrete Math Seminar (ADM).
  
    
      Shuhong Gao   
Department of Mathematical Sciences   
Clemson University   
Clemson, SC 29634-0975  | 
    
  
Email: sgao@math.clemson.edu
 (864) 656 2729
(864) 656 5230