Jiaqi Leng | QuICS

Graduate Student (2019-2024)

3257 Atlantic Building

Jiaqi Leng was a QuICS doctoral student in mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2019 to 2024. He received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2024. He is interested in applying advanced mathematics to the design and understanding of quantum algorithms. During his time at QuICS his advisor was Xiaodi Wu. After QuICS Jiaqi continued on as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley.

Publications

2024

S. Kushnir, Leng, J., Peng, Y., Fan, L., and Wu, X., “QHDOPT: A Software for Nonlinear Optimization with Quantum Hamiltonian Descent”, 2024.

J. Leng, Li, J., Peng, Y., and Wu, X., “Expanding Hardware-Efficiently Manipulable Hilbert Space via Hamiltonian Embedding”, 2024.

2023

J. Leng, Hickman, E., Li, J., and Wu, X., “Quantum Hamiltonian Descent”, 2023.

B. Augustino, Leng, J., Nannicini, G., Terlaky, T., and Wu, X., “A quantum central path algorithm for linear optimization”, 2023.

J. Leng, Zheng, Y., and Wu, X., “A quantum-classical performance separation in nonconvex optimization”, 2023.

2022

A. M. Childs, Leng, J., Li, T., Liu, J. - P., and Zhang, C., “Quantum simulation of real-space dynamics”, Quantum, vol. 6, p. 860, 2022.

2021

C. Zhang, Leng, J., and Li, T., “Quantum Algorithms for Escaping from Saddle Points”, Quantum, vol. 5, no. 529, 2021.