1: Provable Security

2: Post-Quantum Cryptography

3: Fully Homomorphic Encryption

4: Physical Layer Cryptography

Receive his Ph.D. in information security from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2009. 

During 2009 to 2012 he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Sate Key Laboratory of Information Security.

2009-2012: Post doctor, DACAS, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2013-2014 : Assistant research fellow , IIE, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2015-2020 :   Associate research fellow, IIE, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2020-now: Research fellow, IIE, Chinese Academy of Sciences

1. Ruida Wang, Jincheol Ha, Xuan Shen, Xianhui Lu, Chunling Chen, Kunpeng Wang, and Jooyoung Lee. FHEW-like Leveled Homomorphic Evaluation: Refined Workflow and Polished Building Blocks. Eprint 2024/1318. CCS2025.

2. Yijian Liu, Yu Zhang, Xianhui Lu, Yao Cheng, Yongjian Yin.  DAWN: Smaller and Faster NTRU Encryption via Double Encoding. Asiacrypt 2025.

3. Yu Zhang, Xianhui Lu, Yijian Liu, Yongjian Yin, Kunpeng Wang. LEAP: Lattice-based Efficient Adaptable Pseudorandom number generator, TOSC 2025.

4. Yu Wei, Lei Bi, Xianhui Lu, Kunpeng Wang: Memory-Efficient BKW Algorithm for Solving the LWE Problem. PKC (2) 2025: 331-362.

5. Shiyu Shen, Hao Yang, Zhe Liu, Ying Liu, Xianhui Lu, Wangchen Dai, Lu Zhou, Yunlei Zhao, Ray C. C. Cheung: VeloFHE: GPU Acceleration for FHEW and TFHE Bootstrapping. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2025(3): 81-114 (2025).

6. Xianhui Lu, Chris J. Mitchell: Security Standardisation Research - 9th International Conference, SSR 2024, Kunming, China, December 16, 2024, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 15559, Springer 2025, ISBN 978-3-031-87540-3.

7. Jean-Philippe Bossuat, Rosario Cammarota, Ilaria Chillotti, Benjamin R. Curtis, Wei Dai, Huijing Gong, Erin Hales, Duhyeong Kim, Bryan Kumara, Changmin Lee, Xianhui Lu, Carsten Maple, Alberto Pedrouzo-Ulloa, Rachel Player, Yuriy Polyakov, Luis Antonio Ruiz Lopez, Yongsoo Song, Donggeon Yhee: Security Guidelines for Implementing Homomorphic Encryption. IACR Commun. Cryptol. 1(4): 26 (2024).

8. Ruida Wang, Yundi Wen, Zhihao Li, Xianhui Lu, Benqiang Wei, Kun Liu, Kunpeng Wang: Circuit Bootstrapping: Faster and Smaller. EUROCRYPT (2) 2024: 342-372.

9. Zhihao Li, Xianhui Lu, Zhiwei Wang, Ruida Wang, Ying Liu, Yinhang Zheng, Lutan Zhao, Kunpeng Wang, Rui Hou: Faster NTRU-based Bootstrapping in less than 4 ms. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2024(3): 418-451 (2024).

10. Zhihao Li, Ying Liu, Xianhui Lu, Ruida Wang, Benqiang Wei, Chunling Chen, Kunpeng Wang: Faster Bootstrapping via Modulus Raising and Composite NTT. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2024(1): 563-591 (2024).

11. Benqiang Wei, Xianhui Lu, Ruida Wang, Kun Liu, Zhihao Li, Kunpeng Wang: Thunderbird: Efficient Homomorphic Evaluation of Symmetric Ciphers in 3GPP by combining two modes of TFHE. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2024(3): 530-573 (2024).

12. Kwok-Yan Lam, Xianhui Lu, Linru Zhang, Xiangning Wang, Huaxiong Wang, Si Qi Goh: Efficient FHE-Based Privacy-Enhanced Neural Network for Trustworthy AI-as-a-Service. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 21(5): 4451-4468 (2024).

13. Xiao Hu, Zhihao Li, Zhongfeng Wang, Xianhui Lu: ALT: Area-Efficient and Low-Latency FPGA Design for Torus Fully Homomorphic Encryption. IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst. 32(4): 645-657 (2024).

14. Xianhui Lu, Yamin Liu, Dingding Jia, Haiyang Xue, Jingnan He, Zhenfei Zhang, LAC: Lattice Based Public Key Encryption and Key ExchangeScheme, NIST Post-Quantum Cryptograpy Standardization.

15. Haiyang Xue, Xianhui Lu, Bao Li, Bei Liang, Jingnan He: Understanding and Constructing AKE via Double-Key Key Encapsulation Mechanism. ASIACRYPT (2) 2018: 158-189.

16. Xianhui Lu, Bao Li, Dingding Jia: KDM-CCA Security from RKA Secure Authenticated Encryption. EUROCRYPT (1) 2015: 559-583.

17. Qixiang Mei, Bao Li, Xianhui Lu, Dingding Jia: Chosen Ciphertext Secure Encryption under Factoring Assumption Revisited. Public Key Cryptography 2011: 210-227.