arXiv:2511.04967, 2025
Learns gate placement and parameter initialization together; energy error down to 10⁻⁸.
About
I am a PhD candidate at the School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University, working on AI for Quantum and Quantum for RecSys. My work aims to get reliable results from limited quantum hardware: fewer qubits, fewer shots and fewer VQE calls.
News
- Converted from Master by Research to PhD at RMIT.
- FunnelAudit preprint on arXiv.
- PDQUBO published in ACM TORS.
- HamQASBench and DreamQAS preprints on arXiv.
- HyRLQAS preprint on arXiv.
- Q-EVT short paper at RecSys 2025.
Publications
My name is in bold. The full list is on Google Scholar.
AI for Quantum
E(θ) = ⟨ψ(θ)| H |ψ(θ)⟩
Reinforcement learning for quantum architecture search.
arXiv:2607.04845, 2026
HamQASBench: equally accurate circuits can use anywhere from 2 to 62 gates.
arXiv:2607.29491, 2026
Models only the costly post-VQE feedback; 1.6–2.0× fewer real VQE calls.
Quantum for RecSys
minx xᵀQx, x ∈ {0,1}ⁿ
Quantum optimisation for recommender systems on today’s quantum hardware.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '25), short paper, 587–592
First gate-based QPU study of recommender feature selection; predicts the shots needed to beat classical SA.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI), 2025
Recommendation with only five qubits, about 90% fewer than one qubit per tag.
ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, 4(4): 1–24, 2026
Builds the QUBO from counterfactual effects of features and feature pairs on recommendation quality.
Other recommender systems work
Advanced Engineering Informatics, 51: 101485, 2022
arXiv:2609.06964, 2026
Audits which retrieval routes are responsible for an item being shown or dropped.
Education and experience
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Oct 2026 – May 2029 (expected)
Doctor of Philosophy School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University
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May 2025 – Oct 2026
Master by Research School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University Full scholarship. Converted to PhD.
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Jul 2024 – May 2025
Honours in Computer Science School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University Moved to Master by Research.
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Oct 2023 – Jul 2024
Remote Research Intern RMIT University
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Sep 2019 – Jul 2023
Bachelor of Science Information and Computing Science, College of Science, North China University of Science and Technology
Research assistant
