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I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Université de Montréal and Mila - Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute in Montréal 🇨🇦.

My research focuses on quantum information and quantum foundations, including quantum machine learning. I am particularly interested in understanding causality in quantum theory (including indefinite causal order) and developing higher-order quantum computation — the quantum analogue of functional programming. These approaches have applications in quantum algorithms, physics simulation, quantum machine learning, delegated quantum computation, and quantum communication.

Biography

Before joining UdeM and Mila, I was an independent postdoctoral research fellow in quantum foundations and quantum information at the Perimeter Institute and the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo 🇨🇦 (2023–2024), and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo 🇯🇵 (2022–2023) in Prof Mio Murao's group. In 2021, I worked as an independent research consultant in quantum communications for Ofcom (UK Office for Communications).

I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oxford 🇬🇧 in 2022, supervised by Prof Giulio Chiribella and Prof Jonathan Barrett, with visiting doctoral research at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to that, I obtained my Master's degree in Physics from Imperial College London 🇬🇧 in 2018, with my Master's thesis completed at the University of Freiburg 🇩🇪 (Erasmus exchange) under Prof Dr Andreas Buchleitner. I grew up in Akureyri, Iceland 🇮🇸, and Cambridge, UK 🇬🇧.

Beyond academia, I have pursued studies in violin performance as an Ash Music Scholar at the Royal College of Music London, German at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, French at Université de Montréal, and Chinese as a Huayu Scholar at National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan. I have co-composed and released an original album and performed as a violinist at various venues. My other interests include cooking and mindfulness meditation.