Leo Zhou
@leologist
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seeking truths in the quantum realm | ECE prof @UCLA ← Burke fellow @Caltech ← physics PhD @Harvard ← BSc @MIT
Joined October 2009
Excited to officially start as Assistant Professor at the beautiful campus of @UCLA today! If you are interested in a postdoc position in the theory of quantum computing, check out this position and apply by December 1:
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RT @qhrant: 🎉 Big news! BlueQubit has closed a $10M Seed round led by Nyca Partners, with support from Chaac Ventures, Restive Ventures, &…
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RT @sunjiao123sun_: Mitigating racial bias from LLMs is a lot easier than removing it from humans! Can’t believe this happened at the bes…
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Congratulations to my co-authors on finishing this nice work proposing HamQAOA, a quantum algo to optimize quantum Hamiltonians with provable guarantees! Ishaan did most of the writing here while juggling a full-time job and grad school applications. Expect great things from him!
Preparing ground states of multi-particle quantum systems with local interactions is really hard. In work ( with @robbieking1000 and @leologist, we propose a new, surprisingly effective quantum approximation algorithm for this QMA-hard challenge🤖⚡️.
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Just landed in the beautiful Vancouver to attend #NeurIPS for the first time! Here to present my work on a quantum algorithm for learning tensor data with Joao Basso and @Song__Mei. Come say hi at our Spotlight poster Wednesday 11a-2p!
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We believe that studying optimization problems with symmetries enables better understanding of the unique behaviors of quantum algorithms and opens up new possibilities of superpolynomial quantum speedups! 🚀 (6/6)
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My friends at @BlueQubitIO are hiring! If you’re passionate about useful applications of (near-future) quantum computers and thrive in a dynamic start-up environment, I highly recommend applying. It’s a lot of fun working with these guys!
🚀 Exciting News! @BlueQubitIO team is Growing, and We’re Hiring! 👇 We’re seeking full-time Quantum Research Scientists in the USA with expertise in quantum algorithm research. 🤝 Join our world-class team and be a part of building the future of computing. 💻 Develop novel quantum algorithms and test them on cutting-edge quantum computers from @IBM, @QuantinuumQC, @QueraComputing and others. If you’re passionate about quantum technology and want to make a real impact, we’d love to connect with you! #QuantumComputing #Hiring #QuantumScience #JoinOurTeam #Innovation #BlueQubit Apply Here:
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Excited to share that this week, I’m wrapping up my time @Caltech and joining @PhasecraftLtd to research quantum optimization! I will be in the UK for the summer before starting as an Assistant Professor @ECE_UCLA this fall! Looking forward to new challenges and collaborations 🚀
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@science_eye has written a very nice article on our recent work “Local minima in quantum systems,” currently featured on the front page of @QuantaMagazine !
A team of physicists has found a problem that only quantum computers can perform. Though still theoretical, this “quantum advantage” may put an end to decades of searching for a useful problem that classical computers can’t do. @science_eye reports:
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RT @QuantaMagazine: A team of physicists has found a problem that only quantum computers can perform. Though still theoretical, this “quant…
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RT @Song__Mei: Spiked tensor model has a huge stat/comp gap classically. What happens to quantum algorithms? We show QAOA has the same comp…
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The original Yang-Baxter equation written down by C.N. Yang himself in YITP at Stony Brook! It is now encased in glass 😆
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@gppcarleo It needs to be pointed out that the notion of “classical simulation” used here refers only to computing the objective expectation. Running the circuit on a quantum computer is still necessary for measuring other things, e.g., getting bitstrings for search or sampling problems
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RT @RobertHuangHY: ☃️Is it easy to find local minima?☃️ When a physical system is cooled❄️, Nature doesn't always find the ground state bu…
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RT @QuantumYakar: Operating a quantum computer, depicted by various artists using #dalle2. 🧵 Let's start with Francisco Goya 1/21 https:…
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