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 bachelor’s and PhD degrees from Tsinghua University in 2014 and 2018, respectively.
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
May, 2026Prof. Qi Zhao has been honoured as “Highly Commended” in the 2025 International Quantum Early Career Award, one of only two researchers worldwide to receive this distinction in 2025, highlighting the international recognition of his research impact in quantum science and technology.
May, 2026Our work “General Framework for Error Interference in Quantum Simulation” in collaboration with Boyang Chen from Tsinghua University and Prof. Xiao Yuan from Peking University, has been published in Physical Review Letters.
May, 2026Our work “Digital adiabatic evolution is universally accurate” in collaboration with Prof. Dong An and Prof. Xiao Yuan from Peking University, and Dr. Dingshun Lv from ByteDance Research, has been published in Nature Communications.
April, 2026Our works “Randomized Truncation for Quantum State Preparation and Series-Truncated Algorithms” and “Trotterization, Operator Scrambling, and Entanglement” have been presented as QCTiP 2026 contributed talks.
Feb, 2026Our work “Long-lived remote ion–ion entanglement for scalable quantum repeaters” in collaboration with the team led by Prof. Jian-Wei Pan from the University of Science and Technology of China, has been published in Nature.
Jan, 2026Our work "Fast-forwardable Lindbladians imply quantum phase estimation" [arXiv:2510.06759] has been presented as a QIP 2026 contributed talk.
Jan, 2026Our former postdoc Fei Shi joined the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University as an associate professor.
Oct, 2025Our work “Lindbladian Simulation with Logarithmic Precision Scaling via Two Ancillas” in collaboration with Dr. Xiaogang Li and Prof. Xiao Yuan from Peking University, has been published in Physical Review Letters.
Sept, 2025Our work “Designing a Nearly Optimal Quantum Algorithm for Linear Differential Equations via Lindbladian” in collaboration with Naixu Guo from National University of Singapore, Prof. Dong An from Peking University, has been published in Physical Review Letters.
Sept, 2025In collaboration with Sirui Peng, Prof. Xiaoming Sun, and Prof. Hongyi Zhou from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, our work “Quantum-trajectory-inspired Lindbladian simulation” has been published in PRX Quantum.