Talks & tutorials · Xiaodi Wu

Lectures & expository materials

Position papers/Surveys: Computer Science Challenges in Quantum Computing: Early Fault-Tolerance and Beyond, Quantum-centric Supercomputing for Materials Science: A Perspective on Challenges and Future Directions
IPAM & CIQC Winter School 2026 @ UCLA: Hamiltonian-oriented Quantum Algorithm Design and Implementation Part I Part II
Mini-Lecture Series on System-Level Design for Quantum Real-time Control and Error Correction: link
Invited Talk at APS Global Physics Summit 2025: A Full-stack Software Solution for Hamiltonian Simulation and Beyond
Tutorial at POPL 2021: An Invitation to the Intersection of Quantum Computing and Programming Languages slides video. (short version)

2026

RISC-Q: a generator for real-time quantum control systems-on-chip (SoCs) compatible with RISC-V

September 16, 2026. RISC-Q talk at IEEE Quantum Week 2026, in the workshop Real-Time Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing: Bridging Theory and Practice. Slides
March 2026. Invited talk at Duke. Slides (50 min)
May 2025. AWS Center for Quantum Computing Seminar. Slides (45 min)
November 2024. Quantum OS and Real-Time Control workshop at SOSP 2024. Slides (short version)
October 2024. Advancing Quantum Computing Beyond Gate Model workshop at the University of Maryland, College Park. Recording of the talk by Junyi Liu

2025

Exponential Quantum Speedup in Optimization: Theory and Practice

05/2025 CQSE Seminar, UCLA. slides
04/2025 QuantIPS 2025, Rice University.

2025

A Full-stack Software Solution for Hamiltonian Simulation and Beyond

03/2025 Invited talk at APS Global Physics Summit 2025. slides

2023

Hamiltonian-oriented Quantum Algorithm Design and Programming

08/2023 Plenary talk at Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) 2023.
09/2023 CS Seminar, Columbia University. slides (long version)
09/2023 CS Seminar, University of Washington.
11/2023 CQSE Seminar, University of California, Los Angeles.
11/2023 CIQC Seminar, University of California, Berkeley. slides (short version)

2023

Quantum Hamiltonian Descent

(website)

10/2022 Invited talk at the Fields Institute.
10/2023 AWS-IQIM seminar, Caltech. slides

2021

Quantum Machine Learning for Quantum Applications

Invited Talk at ICCAD 2021's special session on Quantum Machine Learning. slides video

2021

An Invitation to the Intersection of Quantum Computing and Programming Languages

Tutorial at POPL 2021. slides video

2020

Automating NISQ Application Design with Meta Quantum Circuits with Constraints.

12/2020 DOE Project Review. slides

2020

Computational Thinking Toward End-to-End Quantum Applications.

12/2020 AMSS-UTS Online Forum. slides

2020

On the Principles of Differentiable Quantum Programming Languages.

06/2020 In the 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2020). slides

2020

How Hard Is It to Train Variational Quantum Circuits?

02/2020 Quantum Algorithms Workshop at the Simons’ Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley. video

2019

Application and training of quantum generative models.

12/2019 Q2B Practical Quantum Computing Workshop, San Jose. slides

2019

Toward End-to-End Quantum Applications

(11/2019) Louisiana State University.
(11/2019) Texas Tech University.
(12/2019) Stanford University.
(12/2019) IQI Seminar, Caltech. slides (extended version)

2019

Provable Quantum Speed-ups for Optimization and Machine Learning

(05/2019) 2nd IAMCS Workshop on Quantum Computation and Information, TAMU, 2019. slides

2018

Quantum algorithms for semidefinite programs and convex optimization

(11/2018) Capital Area Theory Day, 2018. slides

2017

Quantum query complexity of entropy estimation

(04/2017) Microsoft Research, Redmond.
(07/2017) Microsoft Quantum Algorithms Workshop, Redmond. slides

2017

General randomness amplification with non-signaling security

(01/2017) The 20th Workshop on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2017) slides (unavailable) video
(03/2017) IQI Seminar, Caltech.

2017

Limitations of monogamy, Tsirelson-type bounds, and other semidefinite programs in quantum information

(12/2015) IQI Seminar, Caltech. slides
(08/2016) QMA(2) Workshop, QUICS, University of Maryland. slides
(01/2017) Check Anand's talk at QIP 2017 video

2015

Randomness Extraction in the Presence of Quantum Side Information

(06/2015) 1st Trustworthy Quantum Information Workshop, Ann Arbor, USA. slides
(05/2015) Simon's Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley. slides

2015

New Upper and Lower Bounds for Entanglement Testing

(05/2015) Microsoft Research, Redmond. slides

2014

Improved Entanglement Detection with Tools from Algebraic Geometry

(11/2014) Colloquium, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo. slides

2014

Multi-Source Randomness Extractors Against Quantum Side Information

(11/2014) Theory Seminar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

2014

Physical Randomness Extractors

(07/2014) Gordon Research Seminar, Advances in Quantum Information Science, Stonehill College. slides
(03/2014) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
(02/2014) IQI Seminar, Caltech. slides
(05/2013) Quantum Information Processing Seminar, MIT. (under the title: Robust Full Randomness Extraction from Any Weak Source)

2013

Equilibrium Value Method for Optimization Problems and its Applications in Quantum Computation

(04/2013) IQI Seminar, Caltech. slides

2013

Applications of Sum of Squares in Quantum Information

(04/2013) University of California, San Diego.

2012

Epsilon-net method for optimizations over separable states

(07/2012) The 39th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2012). slides
(03/2012) Tsinghua University.
(12/2011) The 15th Workshop on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2012). slides

2012

Parallel approximation of min-max problems with applications to classical and quantum zero-sum games

(06/2012) The 27th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2012). slides
(12/2011) The 15th Workshop on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2012). blog report