Laura Lewis
MScR Student
Research Interests:
Quantum learning theory,
Quantum cryptography
Laura is an MSc by Research student supervised by Elham Kashefi at the University of Edinburgh supported by a Marshall Scholarship. Recently, she completed a Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos). Before that, Laura received her bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in mathematics and computer science, where she worked in the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) advised by Thomas Vidick and John Preskill. Laura’s primary research interests lie in quantum learning theory and quantum cryptography. In particular, she has worked on rigorous guarantees for classical machine learning algorithms for predicting ground state properties, tomography, and proofs of quantumness.
Featured Publications:
1. “Improved machine learning algorithm for predicting ground state properties,” QIP 2023 and Nature Communications 2024. Also featured in Quanta Magazine (https://www.quantamagazine.org/machine-learning-aids-classical-modeling-of-quantum-systems-20230914/). https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13169
2. “Interactive cryptographic proofs of quantumness using mid-circuit measurements,” Nature Physics, 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05156
3. “Learning quantum states and unitaries of bounded gate complexity,” PRX Quantum, 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19882