Bio
I am an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University working with Dr. Nadish de Silva, Canada Research Chair in the Mathematics of Quantum Computation. I work on foundations and mathematics of quantum information and quantum computation. In particular, I study quantum contextuality, negativity in quasiprobability representations, and other indicators of nonclassical physics in hidden variable models, and their relation to the computational speedup of quantum computation over classical computation.
Resume: pdf.
Academic CV: pdf.
Research statement: here.
Background
- Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland in June, 1996
- Graduated from Gonzaga High School in June, 2014
- Graduated with a BSc from University of British Columbia in May, 2019
- Bachelor of Science - Combined Honours in Physics and Mathematics with Distinction
- Honours thesis: Contextuality and Simulating Quantum Computation with Magic States supervised by Dr. Robert Raussendorf
- Graduated with a MSc in Physics from University of British Columbia in October, 2020
- Supervised by Dr. Robert Raussendorf
- Masters thesis: Hidden Variable Models and Classical Simulation Algorithms for Quantum Computation with Magic States on Qubits [pdf]
- Graduated with a PhD in Physics from University of British Columbia in August, 2024
- Supervised by Dr. Robert Raussendorf and Dr. William G. Unruh
- PhD Thesis: Classical descriptions of quantum computations : foundations of quantum computation via hidden variable models, quasiprobability representations, and classical simulation algorithms [pdf]
- Currently a postdoc in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University working with Dr. Nadish de Silva, Canada Research Chair in the Mathematics of Quantum Computation
Collaborators
Some of my recent collaborators include