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Jin-Peng Liu

Assistant Professor

Tsinghua University

Biography

My name is Jin-Peng Liu (刘锦鹏). I am a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at YMSC, Tsinghua University.

I was a Postdoctoral Associate at Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT, hosted by Aram Harrow in 2023-2024. I was a Simons Quantum Postdoctoral Fellow at Simons Institute, UC Berkeley, hosted by Umesh Vazirani and Lin Lin in 2022-2023.

I received my Ph.D. in AMSC at University of Maryland in 2022, advised by Andrew Childs. I received my B.S. in Hua Loo Keng Class at Beihang and Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017, supervised by Ya-xiang Yuan.

My research focuses on Quantum for Science and AI+QS. I attempt to develop, analyze, and optimize provably efficient quantum algorithms for science and AI problems, including topics: (i) robust quantum simulations; (ii) efficient quantum scientific computation; (iii) scalable quantum machine learning, toward end-to-end applications in areas such as quantum chemistry, biology and epidemiology, fluid dynamics, finance, machine learning, and artificial general intelligence.

Editor: Quantum (JCR Q1, Impact Factor:6.4).

Publications in journals: PNAS, Nat. Commun., PRL, CMP, JCP, Quantum, Proc. R. Soc. A, and conferences: NeurIPS, QIP, TQC.

Media highlights: first-page coverage and annual review in Quanta Magazine, SIAM News, MATH+, Chicago PME News, Shanghai News, NSF’s CIQC.

Grants/Awards: ICCM Graduate Thesis Award (Gold Prize), NSF Robust Quantum Simulation Seed Grant (CO-PI), NSF QISE-NET Triplet Award, James C. Alexander Prize.

Interests

  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum Algorithms
  • Quantum Machine Learning

Education

  • PhD in Applied Mathematics, 2017 - 2022

    University of Maryland

  • BSc in Mathematics, 2017

    Beihang University

Posts

Jul 2025 - Aug 2025: I teach a Yau Mathcamp course on Quantum Linear Algebra and Quantum Artificial Intelligence at SIMIS in summer of 2025.

Jun 2025: NSF’s CIQC media report: CIQC’s Impact in Action: Building Quantum Careers in Mathematics.

Jan 2025: I’m thrilled to receive the 2023 ICCM Graduate Thesis Award, Gold Prize (formerly New World Mathematics Award)! Media report in Shanghai News.

Sep 2024 - Nov 2024: I teach a YMSC course on Quantum Scientific Computation and Quantum Altificial Intelligence. I also organize a quantum AI seminar and co-organize a quantum information seminar in Fall of 2024.

Aug 2024: I’m thrilled to join YMSC, Tsinghua University as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor! Postdoc, PhD, and RA student positions are available. Please reach out to me via email.

Jun 2024: Our paper Dense outputs from quantum simulations is accepted by Journal of Computational Physics.

Apr 2024: Our paper Linear combination of Hamiltonian simulation for non-unitary dynamics with optimal state preparation cost is accepted by Physical Review Letters and QIP 2024 and is highlighted by SIAM News.

Feb 2024: Our paper Towards provably efficient quantum algorithms for large-scale machine-learning models is accepted by Nature Communications and is highlighted by MATH+ and Chicago PME News.

Sep 2023 - Oct 2023: I’m a long-term core participant and an invited speaker at Program on Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Quantum Computing, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA.

Sep 2023: Our paper Efficient quantum algorithm for nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations and energy estimation is accepted by Communications in Mathematical Physics.

Sep 2023: I’m invited to present two talks about quantum algorithms for differential equations and financial applications at IEEE QCE 23.

May 2023: I receive the James C. Alexander Prize for Graduate Research in Mathematics.

May 2023: I serve as an editor of Quantum.

Mar 2023: I become a CO-PI of NSF Robust Quantum Simulation Seed Grant: End-to-end applications of quantum linear system and differential equation algorithms.

Nov 2022: Our paper Quantum algorithms for sampling log-concave distributions and estimating normalizing constants is accepted by NeurIPS 2022 and QIP 2023.

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 at Simons Institute, Berkeley and defer the CTP Postdoctoral Associate at Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology!

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.

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.

Feb 2020 - Mar 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.

Publications

Arbitrary Boundary Conditions and Constraints in Quantum Algorithms for Differential Equations via Penalty Projections

Philipp Schleich, Tyler Kharazi, Xiangyu Li, Jin-Peng Liu, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, and Nathan Wiebe

Infinite-dimensional Extension of the Linear Combination of Hamiltonian Simulation: Theorems and Applications

Rundi Lu, Hao-En Li, Zhengwe Liu, and Jin-Peng Liu

Towards efficient quantum algorithms for diffusion probability models

Yunfei Wang, Ruoxi Jiang, Yingda Fan, Xiaowei Jia, Jens Eisert, Junyu Liu, and Jin-Peng Liu

Toward end-to-end quantum simulation for protein dynamics

Zhenning Liu, Xiantao Li, Chunhao Wang, and Jin-Peng Liu

Provably Efficient Adiabatic Learning for Quantum-Classical Dynamics

Changnan Peng, Jin-Peng Liu, Gia-Wei Chern, and Di Luo

Explicit block encodings of boundary value problems for many-body elliptic operators

Tyler Kharazi, Ahmad M. Alkadri, Jin-Peng Liu, Kranthi K. Mandadapu, and K. Birgitta Whaley

Dense outputs from quantum simulations

Jin-Peng Liu and Lin Lin

Towards provably efficient quantum algorithms for large-scale machine learning models

Junyu Liu, Minzhao Liu, Jin-Peng Liu, Ziyu Ye, Yunfei Wang, Yuri Alexeev, Jens Eisert, and Liang Jiang

Linear combination of Hamiltonian simulation for non-unitary dynamics with optimal state preparation cost

Dong An, Jin-Peng Liu, and Lin Lin

A theory of quantum differential equation solvers: limitations and fast-forwarding

Dong An, Jin-Peng Liu, Daochen Wang, and Qi Zhao

Quantum algorithms for sampling log-concave distributions and estimating normalizing constants

Andrew M. Childs, Tongyang Li, Jin-Peng Liu, Chunhao Wang, and Ruizhe Zhang

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

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

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

Group

PhD Advising

  • Yanqiao Wang (Qiuzhen College, Tsinghua)
  • Xinmiao Li (Qiuzhen College, Tsinghua)
  • Yixuan Liang (Qiuzhen College, Tsinghua)
  • Kangyun Zhou (Qiuzhen College, Tsinghua)

Undergraduate Supervision

  • Hao-En Li (Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua)
  • Fanzhi Lu (Zhili College, Tsinghua)
  • Muzhou Ma (Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua)
  • Jingyao Wang (Yao Class, Tsinghua)
  • Weiliang Wang (Yao Class, Tsinghua)
  • Junkai Wang (Department of Physics, Nanjing)

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

YMSC, Tsinghua University

Sep 2024 – Present Beijing
 
 
 
 
 

CTP Postdoctoral Associate

Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT

Aug 2023 – Aug 2024 Cambridge, MA
  • Jan 2024: ICCM Best Thesis Award (Gold Prize)
  • Sep 2023 - Oct 2023: Long-term visitor at Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA
 
 
 
 
 

Simons Quantum Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Aug 2022 – Aug 2023 Berkeley, CA
  • May 2023: Editor of Quantum
  • May 2023: James C. Alexander Prize for Graduate Research in Mathematics
  • Apr 2023 - May 2023: Long-term visitor at Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT
  • Mar 2023: NSF Robust Quantum Simulation Seed Grant (CO-PI)
 
 
 
 
 

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
  • Feb 2020 - Mar 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 (rank: 1/3987)
  • 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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