About Me

I am a first year graduate student at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford co-advised by Prof. Bálint Koczor, Prof. Simon Benjamin, and Prof. Artur Ekert, as well as a graduate researcher at Quantum Motion. My research interest is in developing both quantum and classical algorithms that can be used to explore and better exploit the power of quantum computers. I go by the name George in daily life.

I previously graduated from the National University of Singapore with a B.Comp. in Computer Science, where I specialised in algorithms and artificial intelligence. I completed my bachelor's dissertation under Prof. Patrick Rebentrost, and later worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Quantum Technologies with him. I was also fortunate to have worked with Prof. Min-Yen Kan as an undergraduate researcher.

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Education

  1. University of Oxford

    DPhil in Mathematics

    Oct 2024 — Present

    • Reserach group: Mathematical physics — Quantum information and computation
    • Advisors: Prof. Bálint Koczor, Prof. Simon Benjamin, and Prof. Artur Ekert
  2. National University of Singapore

    BComp. (Hons) in Computer Science

    Aug 2020 — Jun 2023

    • Second major in mathematics
    • Dissertation title: Post-variational quantum neural networks
    • Advisors: Prof. Patrick Rebentrost and Prof. Rahul Jain

Experiences

Research

  1. Graduate Researcher

    Quantum Motion Technologies, London, United Kingdom

    Nov 2024 — Present

  2. Research Assistant

    Entangled Computing Lab, Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore

    May 2023 — Sep 2024

    • Principal Investigator: Prof. Patrick Rebentrost
  3. Undergraduate Researcher

    Web IR/NLP Group, National Univerisity of Singapore

    Apr 2021 — Jul 2022

    • Advisor: Prof. Min-Yen Kan
  4. Student Researcher

    National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

    Sep 2018 — Apr 2019

    • Advisor: Prof. Hong-Ping Lin

Industry

  1. Software Engineering Intern

    Continental AG Singapore

    May 2022 — Jul 2022

  2. Information Technology Intern

    Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)

    Jul 2021 — Sep 2021

Papers

Miscellaneous

Talks

  • Post-variational quantum neural networks. QTML 2023. Contrib. Talk 22Nov2023
  • Post-variational strategies for quantum machine learning. QML Seminar, QAISG. Seminar 24Oct2023
  • Post-variational quantum neural networks. CS Seminar, CQT. Seminar 30Aug2023
  • Domain specific augmentations as low cost teachers for large students. WIESP@AACL-IJCNLP 2022. Contrib. Talk 21Nov2022

Posters

  • Quantum algorithm for large-scale market equilibrium computation. NeurIPS 2024. 11Dec2024
  • Hybrid quantum-classical and quantum-inspired classical algorithms for solving banded circulant linear systems. QIP 2024. 15Jan2024
  • Lightweight contextual logical structure recovery. SDP@COLING 2022. 17Oct2022

Awards & Honours

  • EPSRC Quantum Technologies DTP CASE Conversion Studentship Oxford Oct2024-Mar2028
  • Bachelor Honours with Highest Distinction NUS 2023
  • School of Computing Turing Research Programme NUS 2022
  • Dean's List NUS Aut20 Spr21 Aut22
  • Honour List of Student Tutors NUS AY2021-2022

Teaching

  • B8.4 Information Theory Oxford TA Aut24
  • CS2040(S) Data Structure and Algorithms NUS TA Spr21 Sum21 Aut21 Spr22 Sum22 Aut22 Spr23

Academic Service

  • Reviewer (Journal): Int. J. Quantum Inf., Quantum Mach. Intell.
  • Reviewer (Conference): QTML 2023, TAMC 2024, TQC 2024