Asad Raza

Asad Raza

About Me

I am a Master’s student in physics at Freie Universität Berlin, co-supervised by Jens Eisert and Alex Bredariol Grilo. As part of my Master’s thesis, I am working on problems in quantum learning theory and Hamiltonian complexity. I completed my undergraduate degree in Computing Mathematics, with minors in physics and computer science at the City University of Hong Kong advised by Oscar Dahlsten.

Publications

Xiao-Ming Zhang, Zezhu Wei, Raza Asad, Xu-Chen Yang, Xin Wang. When does reinforcement learning stand out in quantum control? A comparative study on state preparation. npj Quantum Information. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-019-0201-8. arXiv: 1902.02157

Preprints

Manuel S. Rudolph, Sukin Sim, Asad Raza, Michal Stechly, Jarrod R. McClean, Eric R. Anschuetz, Luis Serrano, Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz. ORQVIZ: Visualizing High-Dimensional Landscapes in Variational Quantum Algorithms. arXiv: 2111.04695

Research Talks

  • Online Learning of quantum processes. [manuscript in preparation]
    Talk at Columbia Quantum seminar, Columbia University, New York, 15th November 2023.

  • Online Learning of quantum processes. [manuscript in preparation]
    Talk at QuICS Special Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, 7th November 2023.

  • Online Learning of quantum processes. [manuscript in preparation]
    Talk at Quantum seminar, Tufts University, Boston, 27th October 2023.

  • MA-hardness of geometrically local stoquastic Hamiltonians. [manuscript in preparation]
    Talk at AlgoComp seminar, IRIF, Paris, 10th October 2023.

  • MA-hardness of geometrically local stoquastic Hamiltonians. [manuscript in preparation]
    Talk at Quantum days at AMU workshop, CIRM, Marseille, 20th September, 2023.

  • When does reinforcement learning stand out in quantum control? A comparative study on state preparation (1902.02157) [slides]
    Invited talk at Washington Quantum Computing Meetup, May 27th, 2021.

Miscellaneous Coursework Presentations

  • Concentration of entropy of random states (0407049) [slides]
    Research Project for the course QIC 890: Theory of Quantum Communication at the University of Waterloo, Dec 21, 2020.

  • Quantum advantage in training binary neural networks (1810.12948) [slides]
    Research Project for the course QIC 710: Introduction to Quantum Information Processing at the University of Waterloo, Nov 30, 2020.