Jacob Daniel Biamonte (born January 22, 1979) is an American physicist and theoretical computer scientist active in the fields of

quantum information theory Quantum information is the information of the quantum state, state of a quantum system. It is the basic entity of study in quantum information theory, and can be manipulated using quantum information processing techniques. Quantum information re ...

and quantum computing. He is currently a professor at the

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, or Skoltech, is a private institute located in Moscow, Russia. Skoltech was established in 2011 as part of a multi-year partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Globally ...

. Biamonte contributed several universality proofs which established the first experimentally relevant universal models of

adiabatic quantum computation Adiabatic quantum computation (AQC) is a form of quantum computing which relies on the adiabatic theorem to do calculations and is closely related to quantum annealing. Description First, a (potentially complicated) Hamiltonian is found whose g ...

. He also proved universality of the NISQ era variational model of quantum computation and published several results in the development of

quantum machine learning Quantum machine learning is the integration of quantum algorithms within machine learning programs. The most common use of the term refers to machine learning algorithms for the analysis of classical data executed on a quantum computer, i.e. qu ...

and the mathematics of

tensor network Tensor networks or tensor network states are a class of variational wave functions used in the study of many-body quantum systems. Tensor networks extend one-dimensional matrix product states to higher dimensions while preserving some of their use ...

Education

Biamonte completed a Ph.D. at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

in 2010. In 2022 he defended a thesis for Russia's Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT; russian: Московский Физико-Технический институт, also known as PhysTech), is a public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It prepares speciali ...

Honors and awards

In 2021 Biamonte became a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. In 2018 Biamonte was awarded the USERN Medal in Formal Sciences for his work on quantum algorithms. In 2014 Biamonte became an invited member of the

Foundational Questions Institute The Foundational Questions Institute, styled FQXi, is an organization that provides grants to "catalyze, support, and disseminate research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology." It was founded in 2005 by cosmologists Max Tegmark ...

References

External links

Laboratory for Quantum Information Processing
at the

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