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
Oct 2024Our work "Bounds on k-Uniform Quantum States" is published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
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.
Dec 2023Our project, "Demonstrable and verifiable quantum advantage for sampling, simulation and communication," in collaboration with Prof. Lijian Zhang, Prof. Penghui Yao from Nanjing University, and Prof. Zhengfeng Ji from Tsinghua University, has been awarded funding from the NSFC Theoretical Physics Frontier Leading Project.
Dec 2023Our project, "Empowering Hong Kong Finance with A Quantum Algorithm Platform", in collaboration with HKUST and HKBU teams, has been funded HK$6,900,000 by the RGC Research Impact Fund (RIF).
Nov 2023Our project, "Practical Quantum Dynamics Simulation - Theory and Application," in collaboration with Prof. Xiao Yuan from Peking University, has been awarded HK$1,233,750 by the NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme.