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I am an Associate Professor at the College of Computing and Data Science and the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I specialise in agentic quantum computing, quantum algorithms and quantum information theory. 

I have an avid interest in solving math problems and computational problems. I also sometimes enjoy R&D style problems as they match my background and previous roles as a group manager for Quantum Algorithms and Physics at A*STAR and Principal Scientist at Horizon Quantum dealing with quantum algorithms and compilation. I hold a PhD in theoretical physics  from the University of Melbourne and have published in journals ranging from Nature Photonics, Nature Physics and Nature Communications, to Physical Review Letters and Physical Review X.

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My current interest is focused on the design of quantum algorithms, quantum agents, and quantum sequence models. My group looks at how to design quantum agents for executing agentic tasks and online games, and also to place upper bounds on how the resources required scale with parameters in the task.

We also enjoy working with quantum resource theory tool kits, and information theoretic bounds to quantify the complexity of certain tasks, and to invent benchmarks for quantum computers – certifying that if we can complete a certain task then it required certain quantum processing capabilities. Often this leads to new ways of seeing or designing quantum algorithms – in particular by looking at trade offs in pushing parts of the algorithm or cost to a classical computer and how this impacts overall resource costs.

 

 

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