🎓 Hiring PhD Students & Postdocs!

With recent funding from NSF, DOE, ARPA-E, and NIH, my research group at MSU is expanding 🚀

🔍 Research Areas:
- ⚛️ Quantum information science
- 🧮 Quantum algorithms & error correction
- 🤖 Machine learning
- 🕸 Tensor networks
- 💡 Quantum-inspired algorithms

📌 How to Apply:
🎓 Prospective PhD students: Apply directly to CMSE, ECE, or Physics at MSU
📧 All candidates: Contact me by email with CV + prior experience

🌟 Recent Research Highlights:
1️⃣ Classical Simulation of Large-Scale Quantum Experiments 🔬
- Simulated all recent large-scale SQD experiments using unitary cluster Jastrow circuits
- Includes experiments on IBM quantum computers with up to ~100 qubits & thousands of two-qubit gates — among the largest quantum computations to date 💻

2️⃣ Algorithmic Quantum Code Design 🧩
- Developed theory & practice of quantum code design
- Proved the problem is NP-complete in the worst case
- Discovered a phase transition in average-case hardness
- Used SAT solvers to find novel quantum codes improving on SOTA 🎯

3️⃣ Quantum Algorithms for Chemistry ⚗️
- Computed the cost of quantum algorithms for metaphosphate hydrolysis
- Applicable to current, near-term & fault-tolerant quantum computers
- From work as finalists in the Q4Bio $50M challenge and NIH Quantum Computing Grand Challenge 🏆

4️⃣ Quantum Advantage — Review & Outlook 📊
- Reviewed quantum advantage experiments and classical refutations
- Setting the stage for future work challenging the boundaries of quantum advantage
🔗 See all on Google Scholar

🏛 About MSU Quantum Initiatives:
MSU's quantum efforts are accelerating with:
- 🌐 MSU-Q — Link
- 🤝 Midwest Quantum Collaboratory — Link

🤝 Research Collaborators:
Stanford • Brown • University of Michigan • University of Oslo • Virginia Tech • Los Alamos National Lab • Johns Hopkins APL • NASA • Unitary Foundation • Azulene • QuEra • HPE • SandboxAQ 🌟

📧 laroser@msu.edu

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