Jiaqi Leng
Graduate Student (2019-2024)
Graduate Student, Alumni

Contact Information
- jiaqil@umd.edu
- Office:
3257 Atlantic Building
Bio
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.
Recent Publications
Quantum Hamiltonian Descent for Non-smooth Optimization
, , https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15878, (2025)Differentiable Quantum Computing for Large-scale Linear Control
, , arXiv, (2024)Expanding Hardware-Efficiently Manipulable Hilbert Space via Hamiltonian Embedding
, , arXiv, (2024)
Affiliated Research Centers
RQS