Jiaqi (Jimmy) Leng
I am a Simons Quantum Postdoctoral Fellow at Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley, hosted by Umesh Vazirani and Lin Lin. I got my Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 2024, where I was fortunate to be advised by Xiaodi Wu. My name in Chinese: 冷佳奇.
My research focuses on quantum algorithms for continuous optimization and scientific computing. Specifically, I advocate Hamiltonian-oriented quantum algorithm design, a new paradigm in quantum computation that emphasizes both provable quantum speedups and realistic hardware implementability. I am particularly interested in the following topics:
- Theoretical foundation and design of quantum algorithms,
- Resource-efficient deployment of quantum algorithms,
- Infrastructure (e.g., software toolchains, benchmark, etc.) for quantum applications.
news
May 11, 2025 | I am invited to speak in a minisymposium on “Dynamical Systems for Machine Learning” in SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS25), organized by Yuqing Wang, Boumediene Hamzi, and Molei Tao. |
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Oct 22, 2024 | I am thrilled to chair a session “Advancements in Quantum Computing and Collaboration” at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting (INFORMS 2024), in which I also give a talk on quantum-inspired algorithms for nonlinear programming. |
Oct 08, 2024 | I’m invited to give a talk at the 1st workshop on Advancing Quantum Computing Beyond Gate-Model (BGM2024), hosted by QuICS. Here is the link to my talk. |