People

A list of people from the Quantum Informatics research group.

Staff Members

Staff Interests
Dr Myrto Arapinis Verification of cryptographic protocols, verification of security properties, detection of attacks, formal models, and protocol composition.
Dr Raul Garcia-Patron Quantum computation with near-term quantum devices, quantum simulation, classical algorithms to simulate noisy quantum devices, quantum information theory.
Dr Chris Heunen Semantics of quantum theory and programming languages, category theory, quantum logic, functional analysis.
Prof Elham Kashefi Models of quantum computing and their structural relations; exploring new applications, algorithms and cryptographic protocols for quantum information processing device; verification of quantum technology.
Dr Petros Wallden Quantum cyber security, quantum computation with focus on noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices, verification of quantum computing, and quantum information theory.

Associated Members

Staff Interests
Dr Oliver Brown (EPCC) Large-scale simulation of quantum computing, benchmarking of quantum computing, implementation of quantum algorithms.
Dr Michele Ciampi (Privacy and Security) Theory of Cryptography. Specifically, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, multi-party computation protocols and Blockchain.
Prof Aggelos Kiayias (Blockchain Technology Lab) Broad perspective on Cryptography and Cyber Security with emphasis on blockchain systems, e-voting protocols, digital content distribution, privacy and identity management.

Prof Mahesh Marina (Director of ICSA)

Cloud computing, network architecture.
Dr Damian Markham  (Head of Quantum Team at Sorbonne Université) Quantum computation and information, quantum network protocols, entanglement, foundations of quantum information.
Dr. Harold Ollivier (Head of Quantum Tech at INRIA)
Decoherence, error correction and noise mitigation, verification of quantum computation, near term applications.

Postdocs

Staff Interests
Dr Robert Booth Measurement-based quantum computing, ZX calculus
Dr Kaushik Chakraborty  
Dr Carmen Constantin Category Theory and Quantum Computing
Dr Robert Furber Probability, logic, quantum, and category theory, especially monads.
Dr Ross Grassie  
Dr Robin Kaarsgaard Reversible computing, category theory.
Dr Jonas Landsman Quantum machine learning
Dr Debasis Sadhukhan Benchmarking, noise mitigation

PhD Students

Student Supervisor(s)
Sean Adamson Wallden
Pablo Andres Martinez Heunen
Marine Demarty Garcia-Patron
Nuiok Dicaire Heunen
Matt Di Meglio Stevens, Heunen
Mina Doosti Kashefi, Arapinis
Ioannis Kolotouros Wallden
James Mills Kashefi
Milos Prokop Wallden
Nesta van der Schaaf Heunen
Jesse Sigal Heunen

Project Students

Student Supervisor(s)
Lawrence Borst Garcia-Patron
Adam Brown Wallden
Joe Harris Kashefi
Mateusz Kupper Heunen
Simon Mirwasser Heunen
Hrichika Nag Wallden
Evripidis Papaevripidis Wallden
Durga Sai Srikar Konuru Garcia-Patron
Manuel Tarazona Querol Wallden
Chirag Wadhwa Kashefi
Boniface Yogendran Wallden

Former Members

Name Capacity
Marek Bais Project student (Wallden)
Rui Soares Barbosa Postdoc (Heunen)
Akash Bahgran Master student (Heunen)
Ruiting Cao Master student (Heunen)
Ieva Cepaite Project student (Kashefi, Wallden)
Ulysse Chabaud PhD student (Markham, Kashefi)
Gary Chan Project student (Wallden)
Daniel Charlton Master student (Wallden)
Chloe Chira Master student (Heunen)
Flaviu Cipcigarn Project student (Kashefi)
Alexandru Cojocaru PhD student (Kashefi, Wallden)
Brian Coyle PhD student (Kashefi, Danos)
Hector Dang-Nhu ENS summer internship (Heunen)
Ronan Dance Project student (Heunen)
Mashid Delavar Postdoc (Kashefi)
Ellen Derbyshire PhD student (Kashefi, Wallden)
Raphael Dias Visiting Ph.D. student (Kashefi)
Leonardo Disilvestro Master and project student (Kashefi)
Julien Du Crest Project student (Wallden, Kashefi)
Vedran Dunjko Postdoc and Ph.D. student (Kashefi)
Pau Enrique Moliner PhD student (Heunen)
Patric Fulop Project student (Kashefi)
Alexandru Gheorghiu Postdoc and Ph.D. student (Kashefi, Wallden)
Diakhère Gueye Master student (Garcia-Patron)
Matty Hoban Postdoc (Kashefi)
Xi Huang Master student (Heunen)
Borislav Ikonomov Master student (Kashefi)
Robbie James MPhys master student (Heunen)
Marc Kaplan Postdoc (Kashefi)
Martti Karvonen Ph.D. student (Heunen)
Diana Kessler Master student (Heunen)
Theodoros Kapourniotis Postdoc, Ph.D. and Master student (Kashefi)
Pia Kullik Project student (Arapinis)
Niraj Kumar Postdoc (Kashefi)
Mateusz Kupper Master student (Heunen)
Nikolaos Lamprou PhD student (Arapinis)
Leo Lobski LMS summer internship (Heunen)
Atul Mantri Postdoc (Kashefi)
Martin Marinov Project student (Kashefi)
Neil McBlane Project student (Wallden)
Rawad Mezher Postdoc (Kashefi)
Daniel Mills PhD student (Kashefi)
Vasilis Ntogramantzis Project student (Wallden)
Einar Pius Ph.D. and Master student (Kashefi)
Alfredo Ricci Vasquez Project student (Wallden)
Damian Rovara Master student (Wallden)
Waheeda Banu Saib Master student (Wallden)
Shraddha Singh Project student (Kashefi)
Phivos Sofokleous Project student (Wallden)
Karolis Spukas Project student (Wallden)
Jazon Szabo Internship (Wallden)
Mehmet Huseyin Temel Project student (Wallden)
Yiannis Tselekounis Postdoc (Wallden)
Sean Tull Postdoc (Heunen)
Iskren Vankov Project student (Kashefi, Wallden)
Kaixiang Zhao Project student (Wallden)