[ncclporterror]

The CV of Thomas Vidick, one of the two people that found the bug, is quite impressive. Undergrad at ENS in France (ranked 1st), PhD at Berkeley (3.97/4.0), postdoc at MIT under Scott Aaronson, and now full professor at Caltech. He literally wrote a book on the topic (Introduction to Quantum Cryptography). So, yeah.

[gautamcgoel]

Thomas is indeed a beast - he was considered one of the smartest profs in the department when I was doing my PhD at Caltech. Just FYI, he left Caltech and moved to Israel a few years ago.

[Cyph0n]

For context, as far as I am aware, ENS is the most prestigious non-engineering institute in France and is known for its extreme rigor. And l’X is the top engineering institute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_normale_sup%C3%A9ri...

Someone more familiar can correct me if I am wrong.

[abdullahkhalids]

The other person to find the bug is currently a PhD student, which is more impressive. They beat all the other experts reading the paper.

[Cyph0n]

A second year PhD student no less! He did his undergrad at Tsinghua and is doing a PhD at Berkeley.