Jacob Biamonte (Alumni)

Biography

After completing my undergraduate studies at Portland State University, I worked as a quantum applications scientist at D-Wave Systems Inc. in Vancouver, Canada, and later as a Fellow at Harvard University in the Aspuru-Guzik Group. I obtained my PhD from the University of Oxford in 2010. Subsequently, I worked with John Carlos Baez as part of a joint Oxford/Singapore postdoctoral program and as a Lecturer at St Peter’s College Oxford before joining the Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI Foundation) in Torino, Italy, as their Quantum Science Research Group Leader (2012-2017).

In 2017, I joined the MIT-founded Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology as a Tenure Track Associate Professor, eventually being promoted to the Head of the Laboratory for Quantum Information Processing and then to tenured Professor. I became the first American-born scientist to successfully defend a higher Doctorate at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. My time in Moscow was cut short due to the war against Ukraine. I currently hold a visiting position at the Simons Foundation and the University of California, Berkeley and the Jingdong Foundation Chair Professorship in Quantum Information and Quantum Computation at the Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications.

In 2018, I was honored with the USERN Medal Laureate in Formal Sciences. I have also been chosen as a Foundational Questions Institute investigator and elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. I serve as a consultant and scientific advisor to several public and private institutions, including The Wellcome Trust. I teach applied and engineering mathematics, quantum information theory, and quantum computation.

Former PhD Advisees

Dr Jacob Turner (secondary advisor; primary advisor: Jason Morton, Penn State)
Dr Oksana Borzenkova
Dr Alexey Uvarov
Dr Akshay Vishwanathan
Dr Andrey Kardashin

Former MSc Thesis Advisees

Boris Arseniev
Anton Bozhedarov
Alexandr Berezutski
Maxim Beketov

Former Postdoctoral and Research Fellows Mentored

Dr Soumik Adhikary
Dr Ville Bergholm
Dr Mauro Faccin
Dr Tomi Johnson
Prof Mikhail Malovichko
Dr Anastasia Pervishko
Dr Richik Sengupta
Dr Ksenia Samburskaya
Dr Timur Tlyachev
Prof Dmitry Yudin
Dr Igor Zacharov
Prof Zoltán Zimborás

Selected Publications

Universal variational quantum computation
J Biamonte
(Letter) Physical Review A 103, L030401 (2021)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.103.L030401 (open access)

Quantum techniques for stochastic mechanics [Book] J Baez and J Biamonte
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 276 print pages (2018)
ISBN: 978-981-3226-96-8 (softcover), 978-981-3226-93-7 (hardcover)
ArXiv: 1209.3632

Tensor network contractions for #SAT
J Biamonte, J Morton and J Turner
Journal of Statistical Physics 160, 1389 (2015)
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-015-1276-z
ArXiv: 1405.7375