Mentee

Quantum Computing Mentee

The Quantum Open Source Foundation (QOSF) runs a mentorship program that pairs students interested in quantum computing research with experienced mentors to work on open-source projects.

A figure showing the causal cone and the various paths in a graph representation of a circuit. The nodes present in the causal cone of the observable on qubit 4 are colored blue, and the color gradient represent the distance (darker implies smaller). The blue lines denote a subset of the different paths within the causal cone.

During my mentorship program, we developed a metric to quantify information flow in parameterized quantum circuits, which involved creating a graph-based representation of quantum circuits and introducing a distance metric utilizing mutual information between gate nodes. Building on this, we explored path-based optimization methods for variational quantum algorithms, demonstrating improvements in convergence for tasks like computing ground state energies and binary classification. This project led to a collaboration with researchers at the University of Toronto and Harvard University, resulting in a publication that I co-authored.