About
Xiaodi Wu
Associate Professor · University of Maryland, College Park
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Fellow at the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS). I am also an Amazon Scholar working for AWS Braket. I am a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER, and AFOSR YIP awards.
Before coming to Maryland, I was an Assistant Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Oregon from 2015 to 2017. Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2013 to 2015 (advisor: Aram Harrow, Scott Aaronson). I was also a Simons Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at Berkeley, for the program of Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity in Spring 2014 (advisor: Umesh Vazirani). I also spent two summers at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo as a student intern (advisor: John Watrous).
I received my Ph.D. in theoretical computer science in 2013 (advisor: Yaoyun Shi) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I received my B.S. degree in mathematics and physics in 2008 from the Academic Talent Program, Tsinghua University.
Contact
Office: IRB 5210
Address:
Computer Science
5109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering
8125 Paint Branch Drive
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Collaborations
DOE ASCR Quantum Algorithm Team: Quantum Optimization and Learning and Simulation (QOALAS).
DOE ASCR Quantum Testbed Pathfinder at UMD.
DOE ASCR Tough Errors Are no Match (TEAM): Optimizing the quantum compiler for noise resilience.
DOE ASCR Fundamental Algorithmic Research for Quantum Computing (FAR-QC).
AFOSR MURI: Semantics, Formal Reasoning, and Tools For Quantum Programming.
NSF Collaborative Research: FET: Medium: Quantum Localization and Synchronization Networks (with MIT LIDS).
DOE QIS Centers: Quantum Science Center (QSC).
AFOSR MURI: Towards Robust Scalable Quantum Random Access Memories.
NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation.
DOE ASCR Fundamental Algorithmic Research toward Quantum Utility (FAR-Qu).
NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) ERASE@Yale.