Group News:
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Congrats to (Dr.) Xinan Chen for passing his PhD defense
Xinan passed unanimously after giving a presentation on his thesis work, “Quantum resources in quantum networks: quantum entanglement and beyond.” Xinan was one of the first undergraduates to work with me when I came to UIUC. It’s been a joy having him in the group, getting to know him personally, and seeing him develop into…
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Congrats to Sarah and Anna for completing their Graduate Teacher Certificate
The Graduate Teacher Certificate at UIUC is a professional development credential for graduate students focused on building college-level teaching skills. The program is administered by the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL), and it involves a mixture of workshops, training, and teaching observation.
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Hanwool Lee visits from University of Jyväskylä
We are excited to welcome Hanwool Lee as a visitor to our group for the next month. Hanwool is a postdoc at the University of Jyväskylä in the group of Teiko Heinosaari. His area of expertise is quantum state discrimination, and we are eager to learn more!
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Shlok Nahar joins the group
We are excited to welcome Shlok Nahar as a new postdoc in the group. Shlok comes from the University of Waterloo where he did his PhD with Norbert Lütkenhaus. He is an expert in QKD but a man of many interests!
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Teaching at AIMS Ghana
This semester I had the fantastic opportunity to teach a three-week MS course at AIMS Ghana. The mission of AIMS is to train some of the brightest young minds across Africa in cutting edge areas of mathematical science. I contributed to this mission by teaching a course in quantum information and communication theory. This was…
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Quantum Channel Masking
Check out Anna Honeycutt and my new paper on erasure channels. This is joint work with a former REU student Hailey Murray. Quantum masking is a special type of secret sharing in which some information gets reversibly distributed into a multipartite system, leaving the original information inaccessible to each subsystem. This paper proposes a dynamical extension of…
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Structure Theorem for Quantum Replacer Codes – accepted to SQUINT 2025
Congrats to Sarah Hagen for getting our paper accepted into SQUINT 2025. It’s off to Albuquerque!
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Congrats to (Dr.) Louis Schatzki for passing his PhD defense
There was a unanimous vote to pass after Louis gave a solid two-hour presentation of his thesis work, “The Power and Limitations of Restricted Quantum Learning Models” … He rocked it 🙂
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Orthogonality Broadcasting and Quantum Position Verification – accepted to QCrypt 2025
Congrats to former student Ian George for getting our paper accepted into QCrypt 2025. It’s off to Sanya!
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A Resource Theory of Asynchronous Quantum Information Processing – accepted to Biid 2025
Congrats to Chloe Kim for getting our paper accepted into Beyond iid 2025. It’s off to Munich!
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Finalist for J. K. Wolf student paper award
Congrats to Xinan Chen for being selected as finalist for the prestigious J. K. Wolf student paper award at ISIT 2025! His paper studies the problem of entanglement distribution from a central source.
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Multiplication Triples from Entangled Quantum Resources – accepted to AQIS 2025
Congrats to Max Gold for getting our paper accepted into AQIS 2025. It’s off to Hong Kong!
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Structure Theorem for Quantum Replacer Codes
Check out Sarah Hagen, Mike Nelson, and my new paper on erasure channels. This is joint work with David Kribs and Andrew Nemec. Quantum replacer codes are codes that can be protected from errors induced by a given set of quantum replacer channels, an important class of quantum channels that includes the erasures of subsets…
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Orthogonality Broadcasting and Quantum Position Verification – accepted to TQC 2025
Congrats to former student Ian George for getting our paper accepted to TQC 2025. It’s off to Bengaluru!
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Generalized Inner Product Estimation with Limited Quantum Communication – accepted to TQC 2025
Congrats to Louis Schatzki for getting two papers (1 and 2) accepted to TQC 2025. It’s off to Bengaluru!
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Mavis Future Faculty Fellows
Congrats to Sarah Hagen and Anna Honeycutt for being selected as Mavis Future Faculty Fellows (MF3) for 2025-2026.
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A Resource Theory of Asynchronous Quantum Information Processing
Check out Chloe Kim and my new paper on port-based teleportation! This is joint work with Felix Leditzky. In standard quantum teleportation, the receiver must wait for a classical message from the sender before subsequently processing the transmitted quantum information. However, in port-based teleportation (PBT), this local processing can begin before the classical message is…
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Capacities of Entanglement Distribution from a Central Source – accepted to ISIT 2025
Congratulations to Xinan Chen for getting our paper accepted into ISIT 2025. It’s off to Ann Arbor!