Andrew Childs
Director & PI
University of Maryland
RQS Executive CouncilRQS Senior Investigator
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Andrew Childs is the director of the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation. He is also a professor of computer science and interim director of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Additionally, Childs is a fellow in the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science and served as its co-director from 2014–2024. His main research interests are in the theory of quantum information processing, especially quantum algorithms. Childs received his doctorate in physics from MIT in 2004.
Recent Publications
Efficiently Verifiable Quantum Advantage on Near-Term Analog Quantum Simulators
, , PRX Quantum, 6, (2025)PRXQuantum.6.010341.pdfLow-depth quantum symmetrization
, , arXiv, (2025)Streaming quantum state purification
, , Quantum, 9, (2025)
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