Biography
Dr. Qi Zhao is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
His research interests include quantum simulation, quanutm computing, resource theory, self-testing quantum information, and entanglement detection.
He is interested in any fundamental problem in quantum information, and the practical applications of quantum computers.
He received his PhD degree from Tsinghua University in Dec. 2018.
Then he became a postdoctoral researcher in University of Science and Technology, China from Jan. 2019 to Oct. 2019.
In Dec. 2019, he joined University Of Maryland QuICS as a Hartree Postdoctoral Fellow in quantum information science.
News
Mar, 2025Our work " Simple and high-precision Hamiltonian simulation by compensating Trotter error with linear combination of unitary operations", in collaboration with Dr. Pei Zeng and Prof. Liang Jiang from the University of Chicago and Dr. Jinzhao Sun from University of Oxford, has been published in PRX Quantum.
Feb, 2025Our work "Entanglement accelerates quantum simulation" [arXiv:2406.02379], in collaboration with Prof. Andrew M. Childs from the University of Maryland and Prof. You Zhou from Fudan University, has been presented as a QIP 2025 contributed talk.
Feb 2025Our work "Entanglement Detection Length of Multipartite Quantum States" in collaboration with Prof. Giulio Chiribella from the University of Hong Kong and Prof. Lin Chen from Beihang University, has been published in Physical Review Letters.
Oct 2024Our work "Bounds on k-Uniform Quantum States" is published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory in collaboration with Prof. Xiande Zhang from University of Science and Technology of China.
Sep 2024Dr. Qi Zhao has been named among the Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific 2024 by MIT Technology Review.
Sep 2024Kaiyi Guo and Yue Cao join the group as MPhil students from the School of Physics, Peking University.
Aug 2024Xingjian Zhang's work "Unconditional quantum MAGIC advantage in shallow circuit computation" (arXiv:2402.12246) is presented as an AQIS 2024 contributed talk.
Aug 2024Our work "Faster Quantum Algorithms with 'Fractional'-Truncated Series" (arXiv:2402.05595) is presented as an AQIS 2024 contributed talk.
Aug 2024Zhongxia Shang's work "A polynomial-time dissipation-based quantum algorithm for solving the ground states of a class of classically hard Hamiltonians" (arXiv:2401.13946)" is presented as an AQIS 2024 contributed talk.
Aug 2024Jiayi Wu join the group as a PhD student from Oxford University.