it's been a busy few weeks for me since the academic year
came to a close in the middle of may. i had the opportunity
to travel to shenzhen, china for the 2024 ieee world
congress on services to present research that i had
conducted over the past year which was accepted for
publication in the proceedings of the international
conference on quantum qoftware (qsw). over the past year,
whilst also working towards completing my degree at
newcastle university, i have had the pleasure of working
with two of my previous lecturers, dr. sadegh soudjani & dr.
paolo zuliani, as well as one of their phd students marco
lewis on the uses of genetic algorithms for quantum state
preparation whilst also attempting to optimise for t-count.
we trialled the developed solution on many different quantum
state preparation problems and the results we found were
more or less what were expected of this method. one thing
that was interesting to note that unfortunately we didn't
have time to evaluate more was the potential ability for
genetically generated solutions to be more optimal after
circuit transpilation compared with other state preparation
methods. for more information and to see the paper in full
click
here
for a link to the arxiv version. overall, my first
experience of performing and presenting academic research
has been incredibly insightful. the lessons i have learned
over the past year have helped tremendously in other aspects
of my academic career, in particular my masters thesis. the
guidance from drs. soudjani and zuliani, and marco lewis has
been invaluable and is something i will be able to carry
going forward hopefully within my career in quantum
computing research.
ff there are any questions related to the paper or just my
general experiences, don't hesitate to e-mail me
here!
thanks for reading, heres to hopefully one of many posts
about my research!