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Jin-Peng Liu

Simons Quantum Postdoctoral Fellow

UC Berkeley

Biography

My name is Jin-Peng Liu (刘锦鹏). I am an incoming Simons Quantum Postdoctoral Fellow at Simons Institute and UC Berkeley in 2022 fall, hosted by Umesh Vazirani and Lin Lin.

I received my Ph.D. degree in AMSC program at University of Maryland in 2022, advised by Andrew Childs. I received NSF QISE-NET Triplet Award in 2021. Prior to that, I received my B.S. degree in Chinese Academy of Sciences Hua Loo Keng Class at Beihang University in 2017, supervised by Ya-xiang Yuan.

I focus mainly on the design and analysis of quantum algorithms for scientific computational problems, including topics such as linear and nonlinear differential equations, quantum dynamics, and stochastic processes, with applications in areas such as biology and epidemiology, fluid dynamics, quantum chemistry, finance, and machine learning.

Interests

  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Algorithms
  • Numerical Analysis

Education

  • PhD in Applied Mathematics, 2017 - 2022

    University of Maryland

  • BSc in Mathematics, 2017

    Beihang University

Posts

Jul 2022 - Aug 2022: I’m a long-term visitor of The Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

May 2022 - Jun 2022: I’m a long-term visitor of Extended Reunion: The Quantum Wave in Computing Program, Simons Institute, Berkeley.

May 2022: I obtained my Ph.D. degree!

Apr 2022: I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation!

Mar 2022: As a QISE-NET Triplet awardee, I’m invited to present at QISE-NET Reception, APS March Meeting in Chicago.

Feb 2022: I’m thrilled to accept the Simons Quantum Postdoctoral Fellowship!

Jan 2022: I’m a session chair and an invited speaker at Workshop on Quantum Numerical Linear Algebra, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA.

Jan 2022: I receive the Graduate School’s Outstanding Research Assistant Award.

Dec 2021: I’m invited to visit Harvard Quantum Initiative and give a talk at HQI QuantumFest 2021.

Nov 2021: I’m an invited speaker at The 74th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics.

Aug 2021: Our paper Efficient quantum algorithm for dissipative nonlinear differential equations is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Jun 2021: I’m an applied scientist intern at Amazon Web Services Center for Quantum Computing this summer.

Jun 2021: Our paper Quantum-accelerated multilevel Monte Carlo methods for stochastic differential equations in mathematical finance is accepted by TQC 2021 and published in Quantum.

Feb 2021: I am selected as a NSF Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network (QISE-NET) Triplet Awardee. I benefit from the mentorship of QuICS, University of Maryland and Microsoft Research Quantum.

Jan 2021: Our paper Efficient quantum algorithm for dissipative nonlinear differential equations is highlighted by a front-page coverage in Quanta Magazine: New Quantum Algorithms Finally Crack Nonlinear Equations.

Jan 2020 - May 2020: I’m a long-term visitor of The Quantum Wave in Computing Program, Simons Institute, Berkeley.

Feb 2020: Our paper Quantum spectral methods for differential equations is published in Communications in Mathematical Physics.

Dec 2019: I’m invited to visit Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Nov 2019: Our paper New stepsizes for the gradient method is published in Optimization Letters.

Jun 2019: I’m invited to visit Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Talks

Efficient quantum algorithms for nonlinear ODEs and PDEs

  • Jul 2022: QI Group Meeting, Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Jan 2022: Workshop on Quantum Numerical Linear Algebra, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

Quantum algorithms for linear and nonlinear differential equations

  • Dec 2021: Perimeter Institute Quantum Discussions
  • Apr 2021: R&D Engineering Group, Goldman Sachs
  • Apr 2021: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

Quantum-accelerated multilevel Monte Carlo methods for stochastic differential equations in mathematical finance

  • Jul 2021: Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography 2021 (TQC 21), Riga, Latvia
  • Mar 2021: Sayas Numerics Seminar, College Park

Efficient quantum algorithm for dissipative nonlinear differential equations

  • Dec 2021: QuantumFest 2021, Harvard Quantum Initiative.
  • Nov 2021: Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics 2021 (APS DFD 21), Phoenix
  • May 2021: Quantum Lunch Seminar, Los Alamos National Lab
  • Apr 2021: Quantum Theory Meeting, Amazon Web Services Center for Quantum Computing
  • Apr 2021: IQC-QuICS Math and Computer Science Seminar, College Park
  • Mar 2021: SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering 2021 (SIAM CSE 21), Fort Worth
  • Dec 2020: AMSS-UTS Joint Workshop on Quantum Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

High-precision quantum algorithms for ODEs and PDEs

  • Jun 2020: Center for Quantum Computing, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen
  • Apr 2020: Microsoft Quantum Redmond Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond

High-precision quantum algorithms for partial differential equations

  • Dec 2020: Quantum Winter Lecture, BosonQ Psi
  • Mar 2020: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Quantum computation for linear algebra (QCLA)

  • Mar 2020: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

Quantum algorithms for differential equations and optimization

  • Jun 2019: Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

Publications

Efficient quantum algorithm for nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations and energy estimation

Dong An, Di Fang, Stephen Jordan, Jin-Peng Liu, Guang Hao Low and Jiasu Wang

Quantum simulation of real-space dynamics

Andrew M. Childs, Jiaqi Leng, Tongyang Li, Jin-Peng Liu and Chenyi Zhang

Quantum-accelerated multilevel Monte Carlo methods for stochastic differential equations in mathematical finance

Dong An, Noah Linden, Jin-Peng Liu, Ashley Montanaro, Changpeng Shao and Jiasu Wang

Efficient quantum algorithm for dissipative nonlinear differential equations

Jin-Peng Liu, Herman Øie Kolden, Hari K. Krovi, Nuno F. Loureiro, Konstantina Trivisa and Andrew M. Childs

Solving generalized eigenvalue problems by ordinary differential equations on a quantum computer

Changpeng Shao and Jin-Peng Liu

High-precision quantum algorithms for partial differential equations

Andrew M. Childs, Jin-Peng Liu, and Aaron Ostrander

Quantum spectral methods for differential equations

Andrew M. Childs and Jin-Peng Liu

New stepsizes for the gradient method

Cong Sun and Jin-Peng Liu

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Simons Quantum Postdoctoral Fellow

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing and University of California, Berkeley

Aug 2022 – Aug 2023 Berkeley, CA

  • Jul 2022 - Aug 2022: Long-term visitor at Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT

  • May 2022 - Jun 2022: Long-term visitor at Simons Institute, UC Berkeley

 
 
 
 
 

Doctoral Student

Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation, University of Maryland

Sep 2017 – May 2022 College Park, MD
  • Jan 2022: Graduate School’s Outstanding Research Assistant Award
  • Jun 2021 - Aug 2021: Applied scientist intern at Amazon Web Services
  • Feb 2021: NSF QISE-NET Triplet Award
  • Jan 2020 - May 2020: Long-term visitor at Simons Institute
  • Sep 2017: Dean’s Fellowship of AMSC program
 
 
 
 
 

Undergraduate Student

Chinese Academy of Sciences Hua Loo Keng Class in Mathematics, Beihang University

Sep 2013 – Jun 2017 Beijing
  • Jun 2017: Representative of Beihang Graduation Ceremony
  • Nov 2016: Shenyuan Golden Medal (rank: 10/3987)
  • Dec 2015: Outstanding Student of the Year (rank: 10/3987)
  • Nov 2015: Mathematics Star Award (rank: 1/115)
  • May 2015: President of Beijing Association for Collegiate Reading

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