Job summary
Imperial College and UCL recently won a research grant of £3 million for 4 years from the UK EPSRC to develop distributed quantum computing (DQC). While based at Imperial College, this post-holder will join the multi-disciplinary team to develop viable architectures and techniques to efficiently connect quantum processing units (QPUs) for scalable quantum computing. Our work spans from developing the DQC architecture and demonstrating...
Imperial College and UCL recently won a research grant of £3 million for 4 years from the UK EPSRC to develop distributed quantum computing (DQC). While based at Imperial College, this post-holder will join the multi-disciplinary team to develop viable architectures and techniques to efficiently connect quantum processing units (QPUs) for scalable quantum computing. Our work spans from developing the DQC architecture and demonstrating prototype optical interconnector units with quantum memory, to developing algorithms suited for the system-level architecture to show the potential advantages of DQC.
The main research focus for this post-holder is to investigate the hybrid architecture with mixed use of QPUs and conventional computer nodes (CCNs) for generic machine learning and optimization algorithms, to reveal tradeoffs among various architectural design choices. We aim to develop algorithms to partition a given computational intensive application into tasks that are allocated to distributed QPUs and CCNs for processing to achieve the highest efficiency, while considering the merits and constraints of QPUs and CCNs.
This position is an excellent opportunity for a researcher with strong background in quantum computing, quantum networks and/or conventional communication networks and distributed computing. Strong analytic skills including stochastic models, optimization and algorithm design will be helpful.
Research Duties include:
Essential requirements include:
For informal enquiries about the post please contact Prof Kin K Leung at kin.leung@imperial.ac.uk
Any queries regarding the application process should be directed to Ms Vanessa Rodriguez- Gonzalez at v.rodriguez-gonzalez@imperial.ac.uk
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