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<p><span>All modern computers utilise quantum physics to store information, but the description of the information is not quantum at all. For quantum information, both the storage medium and the information itself has a quantum description. I am interested in how quantum information is fundamentally different from its non-quantum counterpart and how this can be used in information processing tasks. For instance, I've worked on</span> quantum non-locality (non-local games, post-quantum non-locality and resource theory of non-locality), self-testing of quantum devices, certifiable quantum randomness generation, verification of quantum computation and measurement-based quantum computation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Recently I have been interested in re-examining information-theoretic properties of quantum theory such as entanglement from the perspective of efficient (quantum) computation. Quantum pseudoentanglement is one such example, which was partially inspired by a <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12814">paper with Andru Gheorghiu.</a></p><h2>Biography</h2><p id="line1"><span>Prior to joining the CS Department I was a senior research scientist in quantum cryptography at Quantinuum, a multi-national quantum computing company. Before working in industry I have held various researcher and lecturer positions at the University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh, ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences (Barcelona) and the University of London. I have an undergraduate degree from Imperial College London and my PhD in quantum computing is from UCL.</span></p><h2>Activities</h2><ul class="list-comma-separated"><li><a href="/activities/quantum/"><span itemprop="affiliation">Quantum Group</span></a></li></ul>
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