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 Alexandru Cojocaru

Quantum Cryptography, Post-quantum cryptography, Complexity Theory

Dr Mina Doosti Quantum Cryptanalysis, Quantum Machine Learning and Learning theory, Quantum communication
Dr Raul Garcia-Patron Quantum computation with near-term quantum devices, quantum simulation, classical algorithms to simulate noisy quantum devices, quantum information theory.
Prof Chris Heunen Quantum programming languages, distributed quantum computation, foundations of quantum theory, category theory, quantum logic.
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.
Dr Kostas Georgopolous (NQCC) Quantum Applications Engineering, quantum applications in finance
Dr Tom Gur Classical and Quantum Complexity Theory, Algorithms, Coding Theory, Learning Theory, Cryptography.
Dr Abel Jansma Interacting genes, quantum machine learning, causality in complex systems
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 Viv Kendon Quantum computing, future computing, quantum information.
Dr Phalgun Lolur (NQCC) Quantum Applications Engineering, quantum chemistry

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.

Researchers

For an up-to-date list, see Quantum Software Lab Team.

Former Members

Name Capacity
Marek Bais Project student (Wallden)
Rui Soares Barbosa Postdoc (Heunen)
Akash Bahgran Master student (Heunen)
Miriam Beddig Master student (Wallden)
Adam Brown Project student (Wallden)
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)
Carmen Constantin Postdoc (Heunen)
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)
Nuiok Dicaire PhD student (Heunen)
Leonardo Disilvestro Master and project student (Kashefi)
Jiayu Dong Master student (Wallden)
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)
Robin Kaarsgaard Postdoc (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)
Simon Mirwasser Project student (Heunen)
Neil McBlane Project student (Wallden)
Rawad Mezher Postdoc (Kashefi)
Daniel Mills PhD student (Kashefi)
Hrichika Nag Project student (Wallden)
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)
Manuel Tarazona Querol Project student (Wallden)
Mehmet Huseyin Temel Project student (Wallden)
Yiannis Tselekounis Postdoc (Wallden)
Sean Tull Postdoc (Heunen)
Iskren Vankov Project student (Kashefi, Wallden)
Boniface Yogendran Master student (Wallden)
Kaixiang Zhao Project student (Wallden)