Kai-Min Chung received a bachelor''s degree from National Taiwan University in 2003, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2011. His advisor was Salil Vadhan. After his Ph.D., he was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University for three years and supported by Simons postdoctoral fellowship in 2010-2012. He joined the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica as an assistant research fellow in Sept., 2013, and became an research fellow in Feb., 2020.

His research interests lie in the field of cryptography and its interplay with complexity and quantum theory. He has published works in these fields at major conferences such as STOC, FOCS, CRYPTO, CCC, QIP, and TCC. His work on parallel repetition for interactive arguments received a best student paper award from Theory of Cryptography Conference in 2010. He has served on the program committees of major cryptography conferences such as CRYPTO, TCC, and Asiacrypt.