Wojciech Roga Ph.D.

wojciech.roga@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae

born in Poland

Education:

• 2011 Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. Ph.D. (supervisor: Prof. Karol Życzkowski)

  • • thesis ''Entropy of quantum channel in the theory of quantum information'' here

• 2007 Master degree, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, (supervisor: Prof. Karol Życzkowski)

  • • master thesis (in Polish) ''Entropie złożonych operacji kwantowych'' ("Entropy of composition of quantum maps") here

Earlier education:

• 2002 III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. C. K. Norwida, Rzeszów (Poland)

• 1998 Szkoła Podstawowa nr. 25 im. Prymasa Tysiąclecia, Rzeszów (Poland)

Research experience:

• 1 April 2021 - Now Researcher and Project Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan.

• 13 Oct - 28 Oct Program on "Quantum Simulation - from Theory to Applications" in the Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna, Austria.

  • 1 September 2018 - 31 March 2021, Researcher at Quantum ICT Advanced Development Center, Advanced ICT Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Tokyo, Japan

  • 2018, 23 April - 31 August, Researcher in Project lead by the University of Strathclyde: Compact Multi-Spectral Imager for Nanosatellites II, financed by the UK Space Agency.

• 2017, 4-October - 3 December, JSPS fellowship in Quantum ICT Advanced Development Centre, NICT Tokyo Japan.

• 2017, Researcher in the Strathclyde University-led Pathfinder project for the National Space Technology Programme financed by the UK Space Agency.

• 3-13 October 2016 Short study visit in the Quantum ICT Advanced Development Center at National Institute of Information and Communication Technology in Tokyo (Japan).

• 1 February 2015 - 31 August 2018, Research Associate in the Computational Nonlinear & Quantum Physics Group at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (UK). QuantIC, UK national Quantum Technology Hub on quantum enhanced imaging.

• 1 January 2012 – 31 January 2015, Postdoctoral position in the Quantum Information Theory Group of Prof. F. Illuminati at the University of Salerno (Italy). Project: Quantum correlations in open quantum systems.

• 2008-2011, European scholarship for Ph.D. students (Doctus), project for the innovative economy.

• 2007, 2009, 2010, Short study visits in the group of Prof. M. Fannes at the University of Leuven (Belgium)

Fellowships, Grants and Awards:

• 2017, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS London) Short-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• 2016 UK Science and Innovation Network award to support the travel to Japan for the III UK-Japan Quantum Technology Workshop on 13 Oct 2016 in Tokyo (Global Partnership Fund PSI JAT 16004QT3 QKD & Quantum Computing UK Travel Sponsorship).

• 2008-2011, European scholarship for Ph.D. students (Doctus), project for the innovative economy.

Conferences and Seminars:

• 2024 NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi (Japan), Dec 2-6, Talk: "Efficient GHZ state generation protocol for quantum networks"

• 2024 Quantum Innovation Conference Tokyo, Oct 21-23, Participation

• 2024 Sapporo (Japan) 24th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference , Aug 26 - 30, Poster: "Direct and loss tolerant GHZ states generation protocol for quantum networks" 

• 2023 Seoul (South Korea) 23rd Asian Quantum Information Science Conference , Aug 28 - Sep 1, Poster: Universal quantum optical classifier on a silicon chip 

• 2023 The 12th Advanced Lasers and Photon Sources Conference, April 18-21. Oral presentation: "Efficient Dicke state distribution in a network of lossy channels"

• 2023 Warsaw (Poland) Near term quantum computing 2020(+3), March 21-25, Invited Speaker: "Quantum computers for molecular Spectroscopy and large scale compressive sensing" 

• 2020 Trieste (Italy), Conference on Quantum Annealing/Adiabatic Quantum Computation, Oct. 5-6. Participation.

• 2019 Kyoto (Japan), Topical Conference on Quantum Communication and Security 2019, Dec. 17-18. Participation.

• 2019 Kyoto (Japan), EU-USA-Japan International Symposium on Quantum Technology, Dec. 16-17. Poster "Molecular Vibronic Spectra from boson sampling and compressive sensing" 

• 2019 Vienna (Austria), Conference "Quantum Computing in Near Term", ESI Vienna, Oct. 21-25. Talk "Compressive sensing, quantum annealing, and molecular vibronic spectroscopy". 

• 2019 Vienna (Austria), Quantum Simulation - From Theory to Applications, Program. Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna. Invited talk "Molecular Vibronic Spectra from boson sampling and compressive sensing" Oct. 18

• 2018 Glasgow (UK), Young Atom Ooptician Conference 2018, 25th - 29th June, Member of the Scientific Committee

• 2018 Edinburgh (UK), Quantum Technology seminar, Heriot-Watt University, invited talk: “Intrusion detection from analysis of errors”

• 2018 Glasgow (UK), Data.Space2018 Conference & Exhibition, The Information Conference of the New Space Revolution, 31 January - 2 February, participation.

• 2017 Glasgow (UK), International Conference on Quantum, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics, 4-7 September 2017, poster "Efficient tracking, imaging and recognition of faces with a single-pixel camera".

• 2017 Bath (UK), Earth Observation Conference, 27-30 June 2017, participation.  

• 2017 Glasgow (UK), 1st Annual Strathclyde Researcher Conference, 30th May 2017, contributed talk "Quantum warranty of security in jamming-free imaging".

• 2017 Abingdon (UK), Emerging Technologies Workshop, Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation, 3rd - 4th May 2017, contributed talk "Single-Pixel Camera for Remote Sensing".

• 2016 Tokyo (Japan), 3rd UK-Japan Quantum Technology Workshop, British Embassy in Tokyo, 13 October 2016, invited talk "Security against jamming and noise exclusion in imaging".

• 2016 Edinburgh (UK) SPIE Quantum Information Science and Technology II Conference, part of Security+Defence and Remote Sensing SPIE conference  26-29 September 2016, poster: "Security against jamming in imaging with partially-distinguishable photons".

• 2016 Leeds (UK), Photon16, 5 - 8 September,  contributed talk "Efficient search and recognition of objects with a single-pixel camera".

• 2016 Glasgow (UK) SUSSP71, Frontiers in Quantum Dynamics & Quantum Optics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 21st July to 2nd August 2015, poster: "Security against jamming of ghost imaging"

• 2016 Glasgow (UK)  Symposium on Quantum Information, Simulation and Metrology at the University of Strathclyde  June 22, invited talk "Security againt jamming and noise exclusion in imaging"

• Quantum Information Technologies Workshop, University of Bristol, 6th—8th April 2016, poster "Efficient search and recognition of objects with a single-pixel camera"

• 2016 London (UK) Quantum technology for the 21st Century, Royal Society, 9th-10th May 2016, poster: "Security against jamming of ghost imaging"

• 2015 Leeds, Quantum Information Processing and Communication, University of Leeds, 13th September to 18th September 2015, poster: "Security against jamming of ghost imaging"

• 2014 Salerno (Italy), 7-th Italian Quantum Information Science Conference, talk: "Geometric measures of quantum correlations: characterization, quantification and comparison by metrics and operations"

• 2012 Hangzhou (China), Symposium "Quantum Information and Quantum Logic", invited talk: "Quantum channels and quantum correlations" here

• 2011 Sopot (Poland), Symposium KCIK (Polish National Center of Quantum Information), talk: "Entropic characterization of quantum operations" here

• 2010 Toruń (Poland), 42 Symposium on Mathematical Physics "Quantum Channels, Quantum Information - Theory and Applications", participation

•  2010 Sopot (Poland), Symposium KCIK (Polish National Center of Quantum Information), talk: "Upper bound for the Holevo information"

• 2010 Karpacz (Poland), 46 Winter School of Theoretical Physics "Quantum Dynamics and Information: Theory and Experiment", poster "One qubit maps compatible with the interaction with an environment".

• 2009 Sopot (Poland), Polish Symposium "Laboratorium Fizycznych Podstaw Przetwarzania Informacji", talk "Quantum channels with detailed balance condition"

• 2009 Jindrichov Hradec (Czech Rep.), "Central European Quantum Information Processing Workshop", talk: "One qubit maps compatible with the environment" here

• 2009 Warsaw (Poland), "4th Workshop on Quantum Chaos and Localization Phenomena", poster "On qubit maps compatible with the environment" 

• 2008 Telc, (Czech Rep.) "Central European Quantum Information Processing Workshop", poster "Additivity of entropy of quantum maps"

• 2007 Lueven, (Belgium), Workshop "Open Quantum Systems, Recent developments in quantum information", talk: "Dynamical subadditivity of entropies"

• 2007 Warsaw (Poland), "First joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and Polish Mathematical Society", participation.

• 2007 Barcelona (Spain), Conference "Quantum Information Processing and Computing", poster: "On the entropy of composition of quantum maps"

Articles:

 1. Wojciech Roga, Mark Fannes, Karol Życzkowski,

Composition of quantum states and dynamical subadditivity, 

Journal of Physics A – Mathematical and Theoretical 41, 035305 (15 pp) (2008).

2. Wojciech Roga, Mark Fannes, Karol Życzkowski,

Universal bounds for the Holevo quantity, coherent information and the Jensen-Shannon divergence,

Physical Review Letters 105, 040505 (2010).

3. Wojciech Roga, Mark Fannes, Karol Życzkowski,

Davies maps for qubit and qutrits,

Reports on Mathematical Physics 66, 311-329 (2010).

4. Wojciech Roga, Mark Fannes, Karol Życzkowski,

Entropic characteristics of quantum operations,

International Journal of Quantum Information, 9, 1031-1045 (2011)

5. Wojciech Roga, Marek Smaczyński, Karol Życzkowski,

Composition of Quantum Operations and Products of Random Matrices,

Acta Physica Polonica B, 42, 1123 (18 pp) (2011).

6. Mark Fannes, Fernando de Melo, Wojciech Roga, Karol Życzkowski,

Matrices of fidelities for ensembles of quantum states and the Holevo quantity,

Quantum Information and Computation, 12, 0472 (18 pp) (2012).

7. S. M. Giampaolo, A. Streltsov, W. Roga, D. Bruß, and F. Illuminati,

Quantifying nonclassicality: Global impact of local unitary evolutions,

Physical Review A 87, 012313 (2013).

8. W. Roga, Z. Puchała, Ł. Rudnicki, K. Życzkowski,

Entropic trade-off relations for quantum operations,

Physical Review A 87, 032308 (2013).

9. W. Roga, S. M. Giampaolo, F. Illuminati,

Discord of response,

Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and Theoretical 47, 365301 (2014).

10. W. Roga, D. Buono, F. Illuminati, 

Device-independent quantum reading and noise-assisted quantum transmitters

New Journal of Physics 17, 013031 (2015).

11. M. Cianciaruso, T. R. Bromley, W. Roga, R. Lo Franco, G. Adesso, 

Universal freezing of quantum correlations within the geometric approach

Scientific Reports 5, 10177 (2015).

12. G. Torre, W. Roga, F. Illuminati,

Non-Markovianity of Gaussian Channels

Physical Review Letters 115, 070401 (2015).

13. W. Roga, D. Spehner, F. Illuminati,

Geometric measures of quantum correlations: characterization, quantification, and comparison by distances and operations

Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and Theoretical  49, 235301 (2016).

14. M. Smaczynski, W. Roga, K. Zyczkowski

Selfcomplementary quantum channels

Open Systems & Information Dynamics 23, 1650014 (2016) 

15. W. Roga, J. Jeffers,

Security against jamming and noise exclusion in imaging

Physical Review A 94, 032301 (2016).

16. W. Roga, J. Jeffers,

Security against jamming in imaging with partially-distinguishable photons

Quantum Information Science and Technology II. Gruneisen , M. T., Dusek, M. & Rarity, J. G. (eds.). Bellingham, WA: SPIE, Vol. 9996, 7 p. 9996-30. 

Proceedings of SPIE 9996 9996-30 (2016) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2246800.

17. P. Liuzzo-Scorpo, W. Roga, L. A. M. Souza, N. K. Bernardes, G. Adesso,

Non-Markovianity hierarchy of Gaussian processes and quantum amplification

Physical Review Letters, 118 050401 (2017)

18. D. Spehner, F. Illuminati, M. Orszag, W. Roga,

Geometric measures of quantum correlations with Bures and Hellinger distances

Chapter of the book "Lectures on general quantum correlations and their applications" edited by F. Fanchini, D. Soares-Pinto, and G. Adesso (Springer, 2017); arXiv: 1611.03449 (2016).

19. W. Roga, J. Jeffers, 

Efficient location, imaging and recognition of faces by single-pixel camera,

Journal of Optics, 20, 125701 (2018)

20. W. Roga, M. Takeoka,

Classical simulation of boson sampling with sparse output,

Scientific Reports 10, 14739 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71892-0  

21. K. Valson Jacob, E. Kaur, W. Roga, and M. Takeoka,

Franck-Condon factors via compressive sensing

Phys. Rev. A. 102, 032403 (2020)

22. Y. Noblet, S. Bennett, P. F. Griffin, P. Murray, S. Marshall, W. Roga, J. Jeffers, D. Oi,

Compact Multi-Spectral Pushframe Camera for Nano-Satellites,

Applied Optics 59,8511-8518(2020)

23. D. E. Roberson, S. Izumi, W. Roga, J. S. Neergaard-Nielsen, M. Takeoka, and U. L. Andersen,

Limit of Gaussian operations and measurements for Gaussian state discrimination, and its application to state comparison,

Phys. Rev. A 103, 022423, 8pp, 23 February 2021.

24. A. Hosaka, M. Tomita, A. Ohmi, T. Otsuka, Y. Yamagishi, K. Takahashi, K. Wakui, Y. Tsujimoto, W. Roga, M. Takeoka, and F. Kannari, 

Wavelength division multiplexed programmable quantum simulator, (in Japanese), 

The Review of Laser Engineering, 48, 472-480 (2020).

25. H. Yang, W. Roga, J. D. Pritchard, and J. Jeffers, 

Gaussian state base quantum illumination with simple photodetection,

Optics Express, 29, 8199-88215 (15 March, 2021)

26. T. Ono, W. Roga, K. Wakui, M. Fujiwara, S. Miki, H. Terai, M. Takeoka 

Demonstration of a bosonic quantum classifier with data re-uploading,

Physical Review Letters 131 013601 (2023).

27. W. Roga, R. Ikuta, T. Horikiri, M. Takeoka,

Efficient Dicke state generation in a network of lossy channels,

Physical Review A 108, 012612 (2023) .

28. W. Roga, T. Ono, M. Takeoka,

Sequential minimum optimization algorithm with small sample size estimators,

AVS Quantum Science 5, 033801 (2023)  [Featured]

29. W. Roga, B. Chevalier, M. Takeoka,

Fully Quantum Classifier,

arXiv: 2307.03396 (2003)  

30. Gennaro Zanfardino, Wojciech Roga, Masahiro Takeoka, Fabrizio Illuminati

Quantum resource theory of Bell nonlocality in Hilbert space,

arXiv:2311.01941  (2023) 

31.  Kazufumi Tanji, Hiroki Takahashi, Wojciech Roga, Masahiro Takeoka

Rate-fidelity trade-off in cavity-based remote entanglement generation

Phys. Rev. A 110, 042405 (2024) 

32. Baptiste Chevalier, Wojciech Roga, Masahiro Takeoka,

Compressed sensing enhanced by quantum approximate optimization algorithm

Phys. Rev. A 110, 062410 (2024) 

33. Hikaru Shimizu, Wojciech Roga, David Elkouss, Masahiro Takeoka

Simple loss-tolerant protocol for GHZ-state distribution in a quantum network

arXiv:2404.19458  (2024)

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Professional Courses: 

• 2015 Grant Writing Challenge, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (UK).

• 2017 Research Supervision Development, University of Strathclyde.

Teaching: 

2017/18

• • Second supervisor of a PhD student.

  • Co-supervising of Bachelor and Master and Intern students.

2015/16

• I was a second supervisor of two student projects (PH450 and PH550). 

• tutorial for the course of Electromagnetism

• assistance, Computational Physics (Lab exercises)

2016/17

• tutorial for the course of Electromagnetism

Referee: 

Reviewer of Ph.D. Thesis by Paulina Lewandowska, Methods of validation of modern quantum architectures, Instytut Informatyki Teoretycznej i Stosowanej Polskiej Akademii Nauk  

I have been a referee for the following journals:

• Physical Review Letters

• Physical Review A,

• Physical Review A, Rapid Communication,

• Communications in Mathematical Physics,

• Journal of Optics,

• Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and Theoretical,

• Open Systems & Information Dynamics.

• Acta Physica Polonica B

• Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

• MDPI Entropy

• International Journal of Quantum Information

• Applied Physics B

Outreach Activities:

2015/2016

• I participated in a public engagement activity delivered by the Quantum Technology Hub during Glasgow Science Festival in June 2016. The event for schools entitled “Mission Impossible : Agent Photon and the Quest for Quantum” was organised by QuantIC Innovation Space. I contributed mainly to presentation and interactive parts showing how the uncertainty principle can ensure security of communication.

• I participated in a program "Quantum Buddies" supporting physics teachers. The program is delivered in collaboration between QuantIC Innovation Space, University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde, and Education Scotland. 

13/12/2016 Physics Department Advanced Higher Days - Lab Assistance 

Languages:

• Polish

• English

• Italian 

• Basic Japanese

Other Skills, Interests and Projects :

Coauthor of the webpage www.definiteglam.co.uk

Partnership Bookkeeping, Partnership self-assessment in UK