Coming from University of Chicago & Caltech, Junyu Liu joined the Department of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in the tenure stream in the quantum computing area. He has PhD research experience at the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics from Caltech, the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter from Caltech, and the University of Chicago as an IBM postdoc fellow with Chicago Quantum Exchange. Dr. Liu is interested in finding useful quantum information science and technologies for real-world applications, including quantum computing, quantum algorithms, quantum network and quantum sensing. His research focuses on quantum computer systems, quantum algorithms, quantum network, quantum sensing, AI for quantum and quantum for AI.
- PhD, California Institute of Technology
Education & Training
- Department of Energy Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Award with Juan Jose Mendoza Arenas and Peyman Givi (Feb. 2025)
- IEEE QCE 2023 1st best paper award in quantum algorithms
- Welcome Leap Quantum for Bio grant, key personnel (2023-2024)
- AACYF Top 30 under 30 (2023)
- Maria Lastra Excellence in Mentoring awards, honorable mentions (2022)
- Department of Energy Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Award (2022-2024)
- Chinese government award for outstanding self-finance students abroad (2022)
- Air Force MURI postdoc award, AFOSR MURI (2021-2024)
- Featured Alumni, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology (2021)
- Kadanoff Fellow, University of Chicago (2021)
- Quantum Information Science Award, Fermilab (2020-2021)
- Sandia Quantum Optimization & Learning & Simulation Award, Sandia Lab (2018-2020)
- Barbara Groce Travel Award, California Institute of Technology (2017)
- Outstanding Student Scholarship, Gold Prize, University of Science and Technology of China (2015)
- Yan Jici Special Class Travel Award, University of Science and Technology of China (2014-2016)
- First prize in Essay Contest of Electromagnetism, University of Science and Technology of China (2013)
Quantum Computing
