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 and a professor of computer science with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He is also a fellow in the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science and served as its co-director from 2014–2024. Childs's 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
Efficient preparation of Dicke states
, , arXiv, (2025)Efficiently Verifiable Quantum Advantage on Near-Term Analog Quantum Simulators
, , PRX Quantum, 6, (2025)PRXQuantum.6.010341.pdfLaplace transform based quantum eigenvalue transformation via linear combination of Hamiltonian simulation
, , arXiv, (2025)
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