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