Quantum software and algorithms research

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(2025-08-22) Huge congratulations to Gabe on a successful MASc thesis defense! Best wishes for your PhD at University of Calgary.
(2025-05-14) Welcome, Parvin Aliyeva! Parvin, a UBC computer science and physics undergraduate student, will work with the lab this summer as part of the WLIURA program.
(2025-05-05) Congratulations to Ritu, who will be spending the summer with Xanadu as part of their Residency Program's 2025 cohort!
(2025-04-07) The QSAR Lab is excited to begin a new collaboration with Entropica Labs. Mushahid will be working closely with their team on software for quantum error correction as part of a Mitacs Accelerate International internship.
(2025-03-31) Cihan, Gabe, Mushahid, and Ritu represented the Lab with poster presentations at UBC ECE's Research Day. Congrats to Gabe for placing 2nd in the poster competition!

(2024-12-16) The QSAR Lab is now officially part of the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute at UBC!
(2024-08-23) Congratulations to Abhi on passing his PhD qualifying examination! We are happy to have him continue with us as a PhD student.
(2024-07-30) The QSAR Lab is going to IEEE Quantum Week! Gideon will speak about his new qubit reuse algorithm, Mushahid will speak about his quantum debugging tools, and Ritu will present a poster about her work on readout-aware spin qubit compilation.
(2024-07-17) Congrats to Gabe and Abhi for placing 1st and 2nd in the NSERC CREATE in Quantum Computing's annual 3-minute thesis competition! They delivered full presentations of their work at the Quantum BC Seminar Series on 13 August.
(2024-05-21) The QSAR lab welcomes Nils Quetschlich, from the Chair for Design Automation at TUM, as a visiting PhD student this summer.
(2024-05-07) Thanks to Gabe's hard work, a mixed-state qutrit simulation device was released with PennyLane 0.36! Thank you to the PennyLane team for all their time and work reviewing our contributions.

(2023-11-24) Abhi, Ritu, and Marcus represented UBC and came 3rd place in Xanadu's Canadian Quantum Cup programming competition!
(2023-09-18) Gabe presents our work on using qutrits for QAOA at IEEE Quantum Week in Bellevue, WA.
(2023-09-01) Jacky, Nishanth, and Ritu join the group, and Gabe begins his new role as a graduate student.
(2023-07-23) Abhishek presented the talk Towards automated quantum circuit optimization with graph-based deep reinforcement learning at the 5th International Workshop on Quantum Compilation.
(2023-06-10) Our collaborative work with IIT Roorkee scientists about predicting the neutron drip line with quantum computing was posted on the arXiv.
(2023-04-18) The QSAR group is excited to announce the award of an NSERC Alliance Quantum grant to work on differentiable quantum transforms with our industrial partner Xanadu.
(2023-01-26) Abhi presented the talk Quantum-assisted generative models for high-energy physics at the Canadian Graduate Quantum Conference.
(2023-01-01) Mushahid joins the group as its first PhD student.

(2022-11-28) Quantum computing fidelity susceptibility using automatic differentiation was published in Physical Review A.
(2022-11-13) Gideon Uchehara presented work on rotation-inspired circuit cutting for the SC22 Third International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software.
(2022-09-01) Abhishek joins the group as its first MASc student.