Austin, Texas
Scholar of classical East Asian medicine, independent post-quantum cryptography researcher, and novelist — work that runs on a single thread: pattern recognition across systems most people keep separate.
Dr. Simel E. Jenkins-Bey holds a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) from the AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin, Texas — a research doctorate whose core discipline is pattern recognition. His doctoral training centered on Wu Yun Liu Qi, a classical Chinese system of cyclical mathematics that tracks the relationship between consciousness, time, environment, and health, together with predictive modeling.
Over twenty-four years he has studied the traditional East Asian mathematical systems — Wu Yun Liu Qi, Da Liu Ren, Qi Men Dun Jia — from inside the discipline. That work now reaches in two directions: an independent cryptography research program that explores how these pattern frameworks bear on key derivation and post-quantum security, and a finished epic fantasy trilogy built on a magic system in which prophecy and perception are trained human faculties rather than supernatural gifts.
He lives and works in Austin, Texas, where his work centers on research and writing.
Dr. Jenkins-Bey leads an independent cryptography research program exploring how patterns drawn from natural cycles can inform key derivation and post-quantum security. The work proposes Natural Key Distribution (NKD) as a line of inquiry alongside Quantum Key Distribution, sourcing entropy from deterministic chaos in natural astronomical cycles rather than quantum-mechanical phenomena.
The Configuration Space Cryptography series — seven papers deposited with permanent DOIs between 2025 and 2026 — sets out the framework, its adversary models, and its open questions.
ORCID 0009-0009-2064-8078
A note on status: these are self-deposited preprints, not journal publications, and they are offered as an early-stage research program open to review and revision rather than as a settled result. The papers describe theoretical frameworks and their open problems; they do not describe implementations.
A three-book epic fantasy set in a wholly invented world, built around a magic system in which prophecy, consciousness, and solar geometry are trained human capacities — disciplines that can be studied and taught — rather than supernatural gifts. Eighteen years in development. The premise draws on real cyclical and pattern-recognition traditions, which is why the worldbuilding reads with density rather than invention.
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