Talks

This is a (probably incomplete) list of talks I’ve given, with slides and recordings when avaiable.

Separating QMA from QCMA with a classical oracle
  • University of Waterloo IQC Math and CS seminar, Febuary 2026
  • UT Austin quantum information group meeting, February 2026
  • EPFL Quantum IC seminary, January 2026
  • EPFL QSE seminar, January 2026 [recording]
  • Chicago junior theorists workshop, December 2025 [slides]
  • Harvard Quantum Initiative, November 2025 [slides]
  • Simons Institute quantum pod, November 2025 (Board talk)
Local transformations of bipartite entanglement are rigid
  • QIP 2026
  • ITCS 2026 [slides, recording]
  • University of Waterloo IQC Math and CS seminar, November 2025 [slides]
Learning the closest product state
A General Duality for Representations of Groups with Applications to Quantum Money, Lightning, and Fire
  • University of Waterloo quantum innovators workshop, October 2025 [slides]
  • Kyoto quantum cryptography workshop 2, October 2025 [slides]
  • STOC 2025 [slides, recording]
  • Honghai (Foxconn) quantum computing group meeting, July 2025 [recording]
  • CWI QuSoft Seminar, April 2025
  • University of Waterloo IQC Math and CS Seminar, April 2025
Oracle Separation Between Quantum Commitments and Quantum One-wayness
Commuting local Hamiltonians beyond 2D
Candidacy Exam at Columbia University
  • Columbia University, March 2025 [slides]
Efficient quantum pseudorandomness from Hamiltonian phase states
Unitary complexity theory and the Uhlmann transformation problem
  • ITCS 2026, [slides]
  • Korean Institute of Advanced Studies, April 2024 [slides]
  • Harvard university quantum group meeting, October 2023
  • University of Chicago quantum group meeting, June 2023
An efficient quantum parallel repetition theorem and applications
Quantum Event Learning and Gentle Random Measurements