2024
- Teamed up with Jake Arkinstall to provide a tensor network backend for the emulation of Quantinuum's devices, integrated with Quantinuum's software stack.
- Supervised a paper on scalable pattern matching. [arxiv]
- Paper in collaboration with HSBC accepted at Supercomputing 2024. [arxiv, conference]
2023
- Began development of pytket-cutensornet, a library using NVIDIA's cuTensorNet to simulate quantum circuits using tensor networks. [github]
- Joined collaboration with a research team from HSBC on classical simulation of quantum kernel methods.
- Collected some results from my PhD into a paper on "categories of sets with infinite addition". [arxiv]
- Presented the paper on DQC listed below at ICE-8. [conference]
- Collaborated on a paper on Distributed Quantum Computing with Mio Murao's group (University of Tokyo). [arxiv, journal]
2022
- Gave an internal one-week introductory course on Category Theory to colleagues at Quantinuum. [notes]
- PhD thesis completed and accepted (examiners: Peter Selinger, Tom Leinster). [arxiv]
- Paper accepted at QPL 2022: Universal Properties of Partial Quantum Maps with Chris Heunen and Robin Kaarsgaard.
- Began working at Quantinuum as a Research Scientist.
- Paper published in Quantum Science and Technology: Weakly measured while loops: peeking at quantum states with Chris Heunen.
2021
- Gave a talk on Weakly measured while loops at QPL.
- Gave a talk on Weakly measured while loops at YQIS.
- Did a three month internship at Cambridge Quantum.
2020
- Hired as tutor for Introduction to Computation: Functional Programming (Autumn term).
- Stable version of the software on Automated distribution of quantum circuits via hypergraph partitioning released within a virtual machine [download,github].
- Major preprint update: A quantum while loop for amplitude amplification --> Weakly measured while loops.
- Presented a poster on A quantum while loop for amplitude amplification at QuAlg (September 2020, online) [poster,video].
- Released a paper preprint: A quantum while loop for amplitude amplification with Chris Heunen.
- Hired as teaching support (tutor and demonstrator) for Categories and Quantum Informatics (Spring term).
- Gave a talk on Automated distribution of quantum circuits via hypergraph partitioning at PLanQC workshop (Jan 2020, New Orleans) [slides,video].
2019
- Abstract on Automated distribution of quantum circuits via hypergraph partitioning accepted at PLanQC workshop (Jan 2020, New Orleans).
- Paper published in Physical Reviews A: Automated distribution of quantum circuits via hypergraph partitioning with Chris Heunen.
- Visited Peter Selinger and N. Julien Ross at Dalhousie University (the whole of May). The focus was to develop software that distributes quantum circuits [github].
- Hired as teaching support (tutorials) for Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science (Spring term).
2018
- Released a paper preprint: Automated distribution of quantum circuits via hypergraph partitioning.
- Created the Interdisciplinary Quantum Talks (IqTalks) reading group.
- Completed the MSc by Research at the CDT in PPar [thesis].
- Hired as teaching support (tutorials) for Introduction to Quantum Computing (Autumn term).
- Attended a summer school on Applied Category Theory at Leiden (Netherlands).
- Started an MSc+PhD programme at the CDT in PPar (University of Edinburgh).
