Jiaqi Leng

Job title:   Simons Quantum Postdoctoral Fellow
Research area:   Applied Mathematics
Research interests:   Quantum algorithms for optimization and scientific computing
New affiliation:  Department of of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Email:  jiaqil@vt.edu

Selected Publications:

  1. Samuel Kushnir,  Jiaqi Leng,  Yuxiang Peng, Lei Fan and Xiaodi Wu, QHDOPT: A software for nonlinear optimization with quantum Hamiltonian decent, Preprint, 2024
  2. Jiaqi Leng,  Joseph Li,  Yuxiang Peng, and Xiaodi Wu, Expanding hardware-efficiently manipulable Hilbert space via Hamiltonian embedding, Preprint, 2024(link is external)
  3. Brandon Augustino,  Jiaqi Leng,  Giacomo Nannicini, Tamás Terlaky and Xiaodi Wu, A quantum central path algorithm for linear optimization, Preprint, 2023(link is external)
  4.  Jiaqi Leng,  Yufan Zheng,  and  Xiaodi Wu, A quantum-classical performance separation in nonconvex optimization, Preprint, 2023(link is external)
  5. Jiaqi Leng,  Ethan Hickman,  Joseph Li, and Xiaodi Wu, Quantum Hamiltonian Descent, Preprint, 2023(link is external)
  6. Jiaqi Leng,  Yuxiang Peng,  Yi-Ling Qiao, Ming Lin, and Xiaodi Wu, Differentiable analog quantum computing for optimization and control, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022
  7. Andrew M Childs,  Jiaqi Leng,  Tongyang Li, Jin-Peng Liu and Chenyi Zhang, Quantum simulation of real-space dynamics, Quantum, 35 (2022) 4707--4721.
  8. Chenyi Zhang,  Jiaqi Leng,  and  Tongyang Li, Quantum algorithms for escaping from saddle points, Quantum, 2021

Jiaqi Leng, 2024

Year appointed:  2024

Left UC Berkeley:  2026