Wang Xiaoyun

Wang was born in Zhucheng, Shandong Province. She gained bachelor's (1987), master's (1990) and doctorate (1993) degrees at Shandong University, and subsequently lectured in the mathematics department from 1993. Her doctoral advisor was Pan Chengdong. Wang was appointed assistant professor in 1995, and full professor in 2001. She became the Chen Ning Yang Professor of the Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University in 2005. == Career and research ==

At the rump session of CRYPTO 2004, she and co-authors demonstrated collision attacks against MD5, SHA-0 and other related hash functions (a collision occurs when two distinct messages result in the same hash function output). They received a standing ovation for their work. Their attack is estimated to require less than 269 operations, far fewer than the 280 operations previously thought needed to find a collision in . Their work was published at the CRYPTO '05 conference. In August 2005, an improved attack on SHA-1, discovered by Wang, Andrew Yao and Frances Yao, was announced at the CRYPTO conference rump session. The time complexity of the new attack is claimed to be 263. == Awards and honors ==

In 2019, she was named a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) for "For essential contributions to the cryptanalysis and design of hash functions, and for service to the IACR." In 2019, she became the first female winner of China's Future Science Prize for her pioneering contribution in cryptography. In 2020, she was awarded the Levchin Prize "for groundbreaking work on the security of collision resistant hash functions". The following year, she became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist. ==References==