People
Advisor
Jin-Guo Liu
Assistant professor at HKUST(Guangzhou), Advanced Materials Thrust and the Quantum Science and Technology Center. PhD from Nanjing University (2017); postdoc at IOP CAS and Harvard University. Main author of the quantum simulator Yao.jl. Interested in simulating the physical world numerically and understanding computation from a physics perspective.
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Yu-Sheng Zhao
PhD candidate. B.A. in Physics and Computer Science from NYU, M.A. in Physics from Stony Brook University. Works on formulating hard optimization problems (such as the quantum ground-state problem) as polynomial optimization problems and solving them with semidefinite programs.
polynomial optimizationsemidefinite program
Zhong-Yi Ni
Dual B.Sc. in Mathematics and Electronic Information Science from Fudan University. PhD student since 2023, working on scientific computing and quantum error correction. Maintains TensorQEC.jl, a Julia package using tensor networks to decode and simulate quantum error-correcting codes.
quantum error correctiontensor networks
Qing-Yun Qian
B.Sc. in Physics from Suzhou University of Science and Technology. PhD student since 2023, focusing on quantum thermodynamics and quantum many-body physics. Contributed to PXPConstraint.jl for simulating constrained PXP dynamics; explores quantum many-body scars as quantum batteries.
quantum thermodynamicsquantum many-body physicsRydberg atoms
Yu-Qing Rong
B.S. in Physics from Guangzhou University. Joined in 2024, working on isometric PEPS on Rydberg atom arrays: tensor-network variational optimization, compiling isoPEPS to quantum circuits, and designing isoPEPS ansätze for Rydberg platforms.
tensor networksquantum simulation
Long-Li Zheng
B.Sc. in Physics from Shandong University. PhD student since 2024, working on crystal material design and structure prediction: 2D material generation with machine learning, and structure search via ab initio calculation and mathematical optimization.
materials sciencemachine learning
Han Wang
B.S. from East China Normal University, M.S. in Atomic and Molecular Physics from ECNU. Joined in 2024, focusing on topologically protected fault-tolerant quantum computation and Rydberg-atom-based universal quantum cellular automata.
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Kai-Wen Jin
B.Sc. in Mathematics from Nankai University. PhD student since 2024, focusing on automatic differentiation and numerical algorithms: backward rules for linear and semidefinite programs, and sensitivity analysis of analytic continuation for Green's functions.
numerical algorithmsautomatic differentiation
Huan-Hai Zhou
B.Sc. in Software Engineering from Tsinghua University, M.Sc. in Physics from CUHK. PhD student since 2024, developing computational many-body methods that combine optimization tools and tensor networks, inspired by bootstrap approaches.
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Xiao-Feng Li
Pursuing a B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence at HKUST(GZ); joined as a research assistant in 2024 through UGRP. Develops and maintains ProblemReductions.jl, a Julia package for reductions between computationally hard problems.
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