Yuxuan (Vincent) Zhang

Hello! This is Yuxuan Zhang (张宇轩). I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, University of Toronto, with a joint appointment at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Hosted by Yong-Baek Kim and Juan Carrasquilla, I have broad interests in quantum computing, condensed matter physics and machine learning.

I completed my early education in my hometown, Tangshan, and graduated from Tangshan No. 1 High School in 2013. I then earned my B.S. in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara with Highest Honors in 2016. Following this, I spent a year at the Institute of High Energy Physics, where I had fun with fundamental particles. In 2017, I attended The University of Texas at Austin and developed a new interest in quantum information and quantum matter. There, I was lucky to be mentored by Andrew C. Potter and Scott Aaronson throughout my Ph.D. studies.

After all, what have I learned about the quantum world so far? Well, in short:

You observed me, and thus we entangled – though I could never be a copy of you.