# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/xuejia-lai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:31:33.976Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/xuejia-lai"
name: "Xuejia Lai"
slug: "xuejia-lai"
description: "Xuejia Lai is a cryptographer, currently a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His notable work includes the design of the block cipher IDEA based on the Lai-Massey scheme, the theory of Markov ciphers, and the cryptanalysis of a number of cryptographic hash functions. His book On the Design and Security of Block Ciphers (ISBN 978-3891915738) is frequently cited in cryptography papers."
tagline: "Cryptographer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.9
  momentum:             13.63636363636363
  historical:           5.672894666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Xuejia Lai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuejia_Lai"
    title: "Xuejia Lai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuejia_Lai"
    title: "Xuejia Lai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%A5%E5%AD%A6%E5%98%89"
    title: "来学嘉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D1%8E%D1%8D%D1%86%D0%B7%D1%8F"
    title: "Лай Сюэцзя"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D1%8E%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B7%D1%8F"
    title: "Лай Сюецзя"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3571074"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump