although technically still an undergraduate at the time 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 2023/2024 which was accepted for
publication in the proceedings of the international
conference on quantum qoftware (qsw). whilst 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, along with one of their
phd students marco lewis on the uses of genetic algorithms
for quantum state preparation with a focus on also
optimising the accompanying circuit 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.
if 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!