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I am an assistant professor of Computer Science in the LITQ Lab and Research Chair of Institut Courtois at Université de Montréal, and an associate academic member of Mila – Québec AI Institute. My research is at the interface of quantum computing and the mathematical foundations of quantum theory. Currently, my main interests are in developing quantum algorithms for transforming and learning black-box quantum systems, with applications to the simulation of physical systems, and in understanding the information-theoretic consequences of causality in quantum theory. These topics are deeply connected through the paradigm of higher-order quantum computation, the quantum analogue of functional programming.

Biography

I grew up in Akureyri, Iceland, and later in Cambridge, UK. In 2018, I completed my undergraduate and masters degree in Physics at Imperial College London, UK, and did my master's thesis at the University of Freiburg, Germany, on a one-year Erasmus exchange program in the group of Prof Dr Andreas Buchleitner. In 2022, I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Prof Giulio Chiribella and Prof Jonathan Barrett, including several months as a visiting PhD student at the University of Hong Kong. In 2021, alongside my PhD, I worked as an independent research consultant in quantum communications for Ofcom, the UK Office for Communications. From 2022-23, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo, in the group of Prof Mio Murao, and from 2023-24 an independent postdoctoral research fellow in quantum foundations and quantum information at the Perimeter Institute and the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, ON.

In addition to science, I have also studied courses in violin performance as an Ash Music Scholar at the Royal College of Music, London, UK, in German at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, in French at Université de Montréal, and in Chinese as a Huayu Scholar at the National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan. As a musician, I have co-composed and released an original album, and performed as a violinist at various venues. In my spare time, I enjoy cooking and mindfulness meditation.