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Dr Nicholas Chancellor

Teaching Fellow - Quantum Optics


Affiliations
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Teaching Fellow - Quantum Optics in the Department of Physics  
Member of the Quantum Light and Matter  

Research interests

  • Quantum Annealing
  • hybrid quantum classical computing
  • applied algorithms for quantum computing

Research groups

  • Quantum Light and Matter

Awarded Grants

  • 2020: RF040663: Hub for Quantum Computing and Simulation, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, £102764.00, 2020-04-01 - 2021-03-31
  • 2019: Quantum Local Searching in Complex Energy Landscapes(£20298.00 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
  • 2018: Hybrid Quantum Energy Landscape Computing(£465704.00 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

Esteem Indicators

  • 2018: Editorial board membership for PLOS one: In 2018 I accepted a three year invitation to sit on the editorial board of PLOS one.
  • 2018: Implementation of reverse annealing on D-Wave devices: I wrote the first paper which proposed a version of the 'reverse annealing' protocol which has now been implemented on the quantum computing devices produced by D-Wave Systems Inc. These machines sell for about 10 million pounds and have been purchased by Google, NASA, and Lockheed Martin amongst others.
  • 2018: invitation to speak at DLR Quantum Computing Workshop: I was an invited speaker at the DLR Quantum Computing Workshop hosted by the German aerospace agency, DLR. I estimate about 100 people attended.
  • 2018: Invited to speak at AQC 2018 at NASA Ames: I was invited to give a talk at AQC 2018, held at the NASA Ames research facility at moffat field. AQC is the top conference in the field of quantum annealing and I would estimate the attendance at around 300 people.
  • 2018: program comittee member of QTOP 19: I was invited to sit on the program committee of QTOP, the "First International Workshop on Quantum Technology and Optimization
    Problems" in 2018 and accepted the invitation.

Publications

Journal Article

Supervision students