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Principal investigator
Marco Tomamichel
Principal Investigator (aka Principle Investigator)
I am a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as a Principal Investigator with the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore.
My research group is located at the Centre for Quantum Technologies and my office is S15-04-09.
My CV is available here.
I obtained a Master of Science from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at ETH Zurich, and a doctorate in Theoretical Physics also from ETH Zurich under Prof. Renato Renner. Before starting my current position I was a postdoc at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore, a University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellow, and an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney.
I am an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and on the Editorial Board of Proceedings of the Royal Academy A.
Postdoctoral researchers
Dr. Erkka Happasalo (Senior Research fellow)
I am a senior research fellow working in Professor Marco Tomamichel’s group at CQT NUS. My primary research interests deal with mathematical foundations of quantum theory and their applications in quantum measurement theory and quantum information.
According to quantum theory, different measurement devices cannot typically be applied simultaneously on the same system nor sequentially without disturbance. The operational implications of this quantum incompatibility are central to my studies. I am also working on information-theoretic questions such as conditions for asymptotic and catalytic transformations of states with limited resources.
I have previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Kyoto University with Professor Takayuki Miyadera and at Fudan University in Shanghai with Professor Huangjun Zhu. I got my PhD at the University of Turku under the supervision of Juha-Pekka Pellonpää and Teiko Heinosaari.
Dr. Jiawei Wu (Research fellow)
I am a postdoctoral researcher in Marco Tomamichel’s group at CQT NUS.
I’m interested in the security/privacy problem in cryptographic tasks using quantum resources. My current research focuses on quantum homomorphic encryption and secure multiparty quantum computation.
I receive my PhD degree at Tsinghua University, where I worked on theoretical security of quantum direct communication.
Dr. Milad Moazami Goodarzi (Research fellow)
Dr. Sayantan Sen (Research fellow)
Dr. Ian George (Research fellow)
PhD students
Josep Lumbreras
My research interests mainly lie in the area of quantum learning theory, which combines topics such as statistical learning theory with quantum information. Specifically, we employ different tools from information theory to derive lower bounds for quantum learning problems. In my research, I have been exploring the application of stochastic bandit theory to online quantum learning problems.
Previously, I completed a master’s degree in particle physics at the University of Barcelona and worked as an undergraduate intern at the Quantic group (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), focusing on topics related to variational quantum algorithms.
Roberto Rubboli
My main research focus is on mathematical aspects of quantum resource theories. I am currently investigating mathematical properties of resource monotones. I am particularly interested in the fundamental limits that such properties imply for several quantum tasks.
I obtained my master’s degree at the University of Bologna in Italy where I worked on topics in condensed matter physics.
Yanglin Hu
My research area primarily focuses on quantum information theory, with a particular emphasis on exploring and pushing the boundaries of information-theoretically secure quantum cryptography. My interest lies in finding applications of quantum information and understanding its ultimate limit. Currently, I am dedicating my efforts to quantum homomorphic encryption, investigating its capabilities and analyzing its relationships with other cryptographic primitives.
Prior to this, I completed my MSc degree from ETH Zurich and my BSc degree from Peking University, which has greatly enriched my knowledge and skills in quantum information theory.
Enrique Cervero
My research area is primarily on quantum key distribution, with a particular focus on the finite key analysis of device independent protocols based on non-local games. My main interests lie in the area of quantum key distribution and other information-theoretically secure quantum cryptographic primitives. However, I also have previous experience in variational algorithms and fault-tolerant algorithms.
Prior to joining Marco’s group, I received my MSc degree from the University of Copenhagen, where I worked closely with Laura Mancinska on algorithms for weak Schur sampling. Following Copenhagen, I was a summer fellow in Antonio Acín’s Quantum Information Theory group in ICFO, Barcelona and a quantum machine learning intern at Cambridge Quantum (now Quantinuum).
Frits Verhagen
My research interests are in quantum information theory, mathematical physics and cryptography. Within these topics, I like both the mathematical aspects as well as applications such as quantum key distribution.
Previously, I received a Master’s degree from Utrecht University in both theoretical physics and mathematics. My thesis was on a topic in string theory that used methods from graph theory. Before joining the group I was supervised by Charles Lim.
Alumni
A/Prof. Christoph Hirche
Previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship postdoc in our group and now a Junior Professor at the Insititute for Information Processing at the University of Hannover.
Prof. Yonglong Li
Previously a Postdoc in our group and now a professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
Dr. Michael Cao
Previously a Research Fellow and now doing another postdoc at RHTW Aachen with Mario Berta.
Dr. Yingkai Ouyang
Previously a Senior Research Fellow in our group and now EPSRC Quantum Technologies Fellow at the University of Sheffield.
Dr. Christopher Chubb
Graduated with PhD from the University of Sydney, supervised with Steve Flammia. Now Postdoc at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
Dr. Akram Youssry
Graduated with a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney, supervised with Chris Ferrie. Now Postdoc at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia.
Dr. Maria Quadeer
Graduated with a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney, supervised with Chris Ferrie. Now Postdoc at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
A/Prof. Hao-Chung Cheng
Graduated with a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney, supervised with Min-Hsiu Hsieh. Now Faculty at National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
Alexander McKinlay
Graduated with a Masters degree from the University of Technology Sydney. Now in private industry in Australia.