I am Jianqiang Li, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Rice University under Nai-Hui Chia, Anastasios Kyrillidis, and Tirthak Patel, working on quantum optimization algorithms and their applications. Previously, I obtained my Ph.D. at the theoretical computer science group of Pennsylvania State University under the supervision of Sean Hallgren, focusing on quantum algorithms. Before that, I worked with Sevag Gharibian at Virginia Commonwealth University on approximation algorithms for quantum mechanical problems. I did my master's at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and my undergraduate at Yunnan University, China.
My research focuses on identifying problems for which quantum algorithms can achieve superpolynomial speedups. I have explored two such problems. One is to find a root of a multivariate polynomial system, the other is to find an s-t path in exponentially large graphs.