I am an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). My research group has openings for motivated students passionate about quantum science. We also offer postdoctoral fellowships (application link) for exceptional candidates with expertise in quantum computation, algorithms and complexity, high-dimensional probability/statistics, spin glass theory, and quantum optics.

Prior to UCLA, I was a DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar at the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at Caltech, hosted by John Preskill. I received my PhD in Physics from Harvard University under the guidance of Mikhail Lukin, after obtaining my BSc in Physics and Mathematics at MIT where I also worked with Edward Farhi.

My research interests are at the interface of physics, math, and computer science, touching on many topics in quantum information theory, mathematical optimization, computational complexity, and many-body physics. My contributions include analyzing quantum algorithms and architectures, as well as proving fundamental results in quantum complexity theory. I also work closely with experimentalists to develop practical schemes of quantum applications for current and near-term experimental implementations.

My Erdős number is 3.

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News:

• Nov 14, 2024. I will be teaching a special topics class, Physics of Quantum Information and Computation (EC ENGR 279AS), for the winter 2025 quarter at UCLA.
• Nov 7, 2024. New preprint "Quantum speedups in solving near-symmetric optimization problems by low-depth QAOA" is now available on arXiv.
• Sep 26, 2024. Our paper "Statistical Estimation in the Spiked Tensor Model via the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm" has been accepted to NeurIPS 2024 as a spotlight!