talks

Here is a list of my talks, arranged in reversed chronological order.

Conference

  1. (To appear) “Operator-Level Quantum Acceleration of Classical Gibbs Sampling”, invited talk, 2025 Internationa Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT 2025). July, 2025.
  2. (To appear) “Quantum Hamiltonian Descent Algorithms for Nonlinear Optimization”, invited talk, IISE Annual Conference 2025 (IISE 2025). June, 2025.
  3. (To appear) “Quantum optimization methods via Hamiltonian dynamics”, invited talk, SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS25). May 11, 2025.
  4. “A quantum central path algorithmfor linear optimization”, contributed talk, QIP 2025. February 24, 2025.
  5. “Quantum-inspired algorithms for nonconvex quadratic programming”, contributed talk, 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting. October 22, 2024.
  6. “Quantum Algorithms for Large-scale Linear Control”, invited talk, Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA 2024). August 14, 2024.
  7. “Quantum algorithms and software for nonconvex optimization”, invited talk, 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference (IOS 2024). March 22, 2024.
  8. “A quantum-classical performance separation in nonconvex optimization”, contributed talk, American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting 2024. March 6, 2024.
  9. “Hybrid Quantum-Classical Framework for Optimal Control”, invited talk, 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting. October 16, 2023.
  10. “Quantum Hamiltonian Descent”, invited talk, IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE23). September 22, 2023.
  11. “Quantum Hamiltonian Descent”, invited talk, Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA 2023). August 17, 2023.
  12. “Quantum Hamiltonian Descent”, invited talk, 2023 SIAM Conference on Optimization (SIAM-OP23). June 1, 2023.
  13. “Quantum Hamiltonian Descent”, contributed talk, American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting 2023, March 6, 2023.
  14. “Quantum Hamiltonian Descent”, invited talk, 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting. October 17, 2022.
  15. “Quantum algorithms for escaping from saddle points”, contributed talk, Quantum Information Processing 2021 (QIP 2021). February 2, 2021.

Seminar & Workshop

  • Quantum Algorithms for Machine Learning via Unbounded Operators
    • Berkeley Quantum Gathering. April 4, 2025.
  • Quantum Hamiltonian Descent Algorithm for Nonlinear Optimization and Applications in Energy Systems
    • LANS Seminar (joint speaker: Lei Fan), Argonne National Laboratory. February 20, 2025.
  • Quantum Dynamics for Contiuous Optimization
    • Advancing Quantum Computation Beyond Gate-Model (BGM2024). October 8, 2024. [Recording]
  • Quantum approach to classical optimization: why bother and what to do? [PDF]
    • Meet the Fellows Welcome Event, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley. September 3, 2024.
    • Mines Quantum Information Seminar, Colorado School of Mines. April 16, 2024.
    • Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University. April 12, 2024.
    • IQIM seminar, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Caltech. March 1, 2024.
  • A dynamical point of view on quantum optimization [PDF]
    • Scientific Computing and Large data (SCLA) workshop, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina. December 21, 2023.
    • Level Set Seminar, Department of Mathematics, UCLA.
  • Hamiltonian embedding and a paradigm shift in quantum algorithm design [PDF]
    • Young Researcher Seminar, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA. October 10, 2023.
  • Quantum Hamiltonian Descent [PDF]
    • Harvard-MIT Quantum Machine Learning Journal Club, Harvard University. June 21, 2023.
    • Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Seminar , University of Washington. April 18, 2023.
    • QUARD Lab group seminar, Peking University. April 14, 2023.
    • Prof. Jiantao Jiao’s Lab seminar, EECS Department, UC Berkeley. April 12, 2023.
  • Differentiable analog quantum computing for optimization and control
    • Prof. Peter McMahon’s group meeting, Cornell University. February 1, 2023.
  • Quantum simulation of real-space dynamics
    • Prof. Giuseppe Di Molfetta’s group meeting, AIX-Marseille Université. January 17, 2023.
  • Quantum search algorithms and discrete Schrödinger dynamics [PDF]
    • Student AMSC Seminar at University of Maryland, College Park. March 6, 2020.

Tutorial

  1. “SimuQ: A Domain-Specific Language for Quantum Simulation with Analog Compilation”, tutorial, EEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE23). September 20, 2023.