Runzhou Tao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and a Fellow at the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. Runzhou obtained his Ph.D. in 2024 from the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science in 2019 from Yao Class of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University. His research aims to build scalable and secure software systems for quantum computing.