Centre for Quantum Software and Information (QSI)

Michael is Director of the UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information and a Professor of Computer Science. He also leads the UTS node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology. Michael represents UTS on the Executive Advisory Board of the Sydney Quantum Academy, a $35M joint venture between UTS, the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University and the New South Wales Government. He is also serving as co-Editor in Chief of the Nature Partner Journal Quantum Information.

Michael heads a team researching theoretical aspects of quantum computation; specialising in the capabilities of quantum software in near-term devices, and the design of quantum computers. His research program is focused on identifying quantum computing applications that outperform classical computers in the easiest, and cheapest, way possible. This involves theoretically identifying applications and experimental benchmarks, designing architectures capable of achieving them, and working with experimental teams to bring them to reality.

As the UTS node leader for the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology Michael coordinates the Centre’s research on quantum architectures and algorithms. This program’s goal is to develop interesting computational tasks that are experimentally viable in the near-term and clearly on the pathway to scaling-up to more ambitious long-term quantum computing architectures. This involves working with the Centre’s experimental teams to optimize their architectures informed by the latest developments in the theory of quantum algorithms, complexity, and error correction.

Michael joined UTS in 2012 as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He completed his PhD at the University of Queensland in 2005 under Dr Michael Nielsen on the role entanglement plays in the design of quantum computers. Between 2005–2012 he held postdoctoral appointments with quantum computing teams at the Universities of Innsbruck, Bristol, and Hannover.

Simon Devitt is currently Professor and Director of the centre for Quantum Software and Information (QSI) at the University of Technology, Sydney.  Prof. Devitt received the B. Sc. (Hons) in physics and Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne. He has held various research and academic roles at Cambridge University, the Japanese National Institute of Informatics, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Keio University, Tokyo, the Japanese national labs, RIKEN and Macquarie University Sydney.  He is also currently the InstituteQ Visiting Chair of Excellence in Quantum Technologies at Aalto University, Finland, the co-founder and managing director of h-bar quantum consultants, director of the Australian Quantum Software Network (AQSN), visiting senior research scientist at RIKEN, Japan and co-founder and managing director of quantum education startup, Eigensystems Pty Ltd.  He is currently a member of the Australian National Quantum Advisory Committee. Professor Devitt has published 145 journal publications and eleven patents.  He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.

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I am Chris Ferrie, father of four and happy husband. My day job is academic research where I follow my curiosity through the word of quantum physics. My passion for communicating science has led from the most esoteric topics of mathematical physics to more recently writing children's books.

During the day you will find me as an associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney and Centre for Quantum Software and Information. My research interests include quantum estimation and control, and, in particular, the use of machine learning to solve statistical problems in quantum information science. I obtained my PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Institute for Quantum Computing and University of Waterloo (Canada) in 2012.

At the end of 2017, Dr Langford joined the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences as a Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow to establish the new Circuit Quantum Science research group (CirQuS UTS), and the Millikelvin Quantum Science laboratory, a state-of-the-art cryogenic and microwave facility for experiments in circuit quantum electrodynamics and microwave quantum optics. His research interests include quantum simulations, quantum computing, quantum tomography, quantum foundations, open and driven quantum systems, quantum chaos and microwave-to-optical frequency conversion. His group will begin with a main focus on developing small-to-medium scale circuit QED quantum simulators using transmons.

Dr Nathan Langford carried out his doctoral studies in experimental and theoretical photonic quantum information with Andrew White at the University of Queensland. His work studied a broad range of different ways to encode, manipulate and measure quantum information in photonic systems, and his thesis was selected as runner-up for the Australian Institute of Physics Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics. Since completing his PhD in 2007, he continued his work in photonic quantum information processing as a postdoc, first with Anton Zeilinger at the University of Vienna, and then with Ian Walmsley at the University of Oxford. In Vienna, he was involved with a range of projects, including fundamental tests of local realism and noncontextuality, and developing a new nonlinear approach for moving towards deterministic photonic quantum computing. In Oxford, he worked on experiments in quantum memories, integrated photonic quantum circuits, quantum simulations and room-temperature solid-state entanglement.

More recently, after a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Royal Holloway University of London to change directions into the field microwave quantum optics, Dr Langford completed his turn to the Dark Side to work in the superconducting circuit quantum electrodynamics group of Leonardo DiCarlo in QuTech and the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft at the Delft University of Technology. In Delft, focussing on transmon experiments, he was involved in projects ranging from extensible multiqubit control techniques and "remote" chip-to-chip entanglement to digital and analogue quantum simulations.


Research Grants, Fellowships, Consulting Research and PhD Student Funding (total = AUD $6,138,039):

2023, $108,000 (Co-lead CI): Consulting Research for Standards Australia, 2023
2023, $3,000,000 (Lead CI): NSW Tech Central Research and Innovation Infrastructure Fund, Advanced Prototype Packaging Facility, 2023-2024
2022, $148,750 (Lead CI): Consulting Research for Standards Australia, 2022-2023
2022, $17,500: Sydney Quantum Academy Extension Scholarship, 2022-2025
2022, $140,000: UTS Research Excellence Scholarship, 2022-2025
2022, $33,500: Sydney Quantum Academy Top-up Scholarship, 2022-2025
2021, $160,000: Sydney Quantum Academy Primary Scholarship, 2021-2025
2020, $699,664 (Co-lead CI): Australian Research Council LIEF Grant LE210100040, Multifunctional deposition system for advanced superconducting circuits, University of Technology Sydney, 2021
2020, $659,755 (Lead CI): Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP210101367, Pushing the digital limits in quantum simulation for advanced manufacturing, University of Technology Sydney, 2021-2023
2020, $160,000: Sydney Quantum Academy Primary Scholarship, 2021-2024
2020, $35,000: Sydney Quantum Academy Top-up Scholarship, 2020-2022
2020, $35,000: Sydney Quantum Academy Top-up Scholarship, 2020-2022
2018: UTS CPDRF, 2019-2022
2017, $768,000 (Lead CI): Australian Research Council Future Fellowship FT170100399, Simulating complexity: ultrastrong interactions in superconducting circuits, University of Technology Sydney, 2017-2021
2011, EUR 209,593 (Individual Fellowship): Marie Curie Intra-European (Postdoctoral) Fellowship for Career Development, FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, Royal Holloway University of London, 2011-2013


Prizes and Awards:

2023: MaPS Research Award for Excellence in Research Supervision
2012: AOS Geoff Opat Early Career Researchers Prize for contributions to the field of optics, Australian Optical Society
2008: AIP Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics - Runner up (for the best PhD thesis by a student from an Australian University), Australian Institute of Physics
2007: Dean's Commendation for Outstanding PhD, University of Queensland
2005: OSA Student Travel Prize for best student oral presentation at ACOLS (Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy), Rotorua, New Zealand, Dec 2005
2004: ATSE (Australian Academy for Technological Sciences and Engineering) Young Science Ambassador Award
2002: University Medal, University of Queensland


Professional Involvement:

2023: Member, IEC Standards Evaluation Group SEG14 on Quantum Technologies
2023: Member, UTS Faculty of Science Equity and Diversity Committee
2022: Acting Convenor, Australian Mirror Committee, ISO/IEC Working Group JTC1/WG14 on Quantum Computing, Standards Australia
2022: Member, ISO/IEC Working Group JTC1/WG14 on Quantum Computing, Standards Australia
2021: Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Physics Division
2020-2023: Member, Sydney Quantum Academy Technical Advisory Committee
2019: Member, Sydney Quantum Academy Establishment Advisory Committee
2019-present: Member, UTS Faculty of Science Sustainability Committee
2018: Reviewer, Marsden Fund Standard Grant, New Zealand
2018-present: Core Member, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information (UTS:QSI)
2014-2017: Reviewer/committee member of the Quantum Science, Engineering and Technology Subcommittee in the Fundamental Science Program of the annual CLEO Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics of the Optical Society of America.
Reviewer for Nature, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, NPJ Quantum Information, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Physical Review A, New Journal of Physics, Journal of Optics, Physica A and Progress in Informatics.

I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for Quantum Software and Information. My research is broadly quantum information science with focus on bridging the gap between theory and implementation. Currently, I am investigating the design and implementation of quantum computing devices: i) quantum error correction and fault-tolerant, ii) device-independent quantum tomography and characterization, and iii) quantum software stack.

I have deep knowledge in many areas of quantum information science: quantum cryptography and randomness generation, Bell nonlocality and foundations of physics, device-independent quantum tomography and characterization, and entanglement distillation for quantum internet.

Employment:

From January 2009: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney

September 2001 - December 2008: Dept. Comp.Sci. andTechnol.,Tsinghua University

Education:

Ph.D. in Mathematics
1996-2001 Sichuan University,Chengdu, China

B.Sc. in Mathematics
1992-1996 Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China

Awards:

UTS Early Career Research Excellence Award, University of Technology Sydney, 2010

ARC Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council, 2009

CVIC Software Award, CVIC Software Engineering Co., Ltd, 2008

MSRA Young Professorship, Microsoft Research Asia, 2006

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Humboldt Foundation, 2004

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology and the Centre for Quantum Software and Information at the University of Technology Sydney.

Previously I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Bristol under the mentorship of Ashley Montanaro and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Technology Sydney under the mentorship of Michael Bremner. I completed my PhD in the Centre for Quantum Software and Information at the University of Technology Sydney under the supervision of Michael Bremner and Peter Rohde.

Luke Mathieson is a theoretical computer scientist and lecturer at UTS. His research is centred on parameterized complexity and its applications, but extends to a variety of areas of complexity theory, algorithmics, quantum computing, graph theory and related mathematics.

He has taught an extensive range of computer science subjects, particularly focusing on the theory of computation, computational complexity and algorithmics.

He is the Course Director for the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology suite of degree programmes, and the Course Coordinator for the IT Core.

He is also a epeeist, a science fiction fan and a terrible guitarist.

Canadian-Australian quantum computer scientist

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Quantum Software & Information at the University of Technology Sydney.

Professor Mingsheng Ying is internationally recognised for his distinctive scientific contributions and professional affiliations within the quantum computing community. He holds the position of Distinguished Professor at the UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information, where he specialises in quantum programming and verification.

Professor Ying's research interests span quantum computation, programming language theory, and the foundations of artificial intelligence. He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC) and has previously held editorial roles with several leading publications, including the Artificial Intelligence Journal.

Professor Ying has authored numerous papers published in top-tier international journals and conferences. 
He is also the author of three books:

• Foundations of Quantum Programming (Elsevier–Morgan Kaufmann, 2016; 2nd ed. 2024)
• Topology in Process Calculus: Approximate Correctness and Infinite Evolution of Concurrent Programs (Springer-Verlag, 2001)
• Model Checking Quantum Systems: Principles and Algorithms (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
  
  

He graduated from the Department of Mathematics at Fuzhou Teachers College, Jiangxi, China, in 1981. His accolades include the NSF China Distinguished Young Scholar Award (1997) and the China National Science Award (Natural Science) in 2008.