Bill Fefferman
Assistant Research Professor (2018-2019)
Contact Information
- bfefferman@gmail.com
- Office:
3100E Atlantic Building
Bio
Bill Fefferman was a Research Assistant Professor in QuICS and a Research Scientist at NIST from 2018-2019. His work focused on quantum computation and computational complexity theory, with an emphasis on understanding the capabilities of near term quantum devices and experiments. He previously held postdoctoral positions at UC Berkeley advised by Umesh Vazirani, and at the University of Maryland in QuICS. He received his doctorate from Caltech in 2014, advised by Alexei Kitaev and Chris Umans. In 2017 he was the recipient of a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to help support his research on the power of near-term quantum systems. Bill is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.
Recent Publications
Effect of Nonunital Noise on Random-Circuit Sampling
, , PRX Quantum, 5, 030317, (2024)A Sharp Phase Transition in Linear Cross-Entropy Benchmarking
, , arXiv:2305.04954 [cond-mat, physics:quant-ph], (2023)Ware et al_2023_A sharp phase transition in linear cross-entropy benchmarking.pdfComplexity Phase Transitions Generated by Entanglement
, , Phys. Rev. Lett., 131, (2023)Ghosh et al_2022_Sharp complexity phase transitions generated by entanglement.pdf
Related Events
- May 27, 2015 11:00 amQuICS seminar
Quantum complexity and circuit obfuscation
Bill Fefferman(Maryland)