Brandon Augustino's Homepage
e-mail: brandonaugustino[at]gmail[dot]com, baug[at]mit[dot]edu
I am a Senior Associate -- Quantum Computing, Global Technology Applied Research at JPMorgan Chase & Co..
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Associate with the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Before that, I earned my Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Lehigh University, where I worked in the Quantum Computing and Optimization Lab.
My CV can be found here. (last updated 04/2024).
Links to my arXiv papers and Google Scholar page.
Memberships: ACM, IEEE, INFORMS, SIAM.
Recent Updates
12/2024 Our paper "A quantum central path algorithm for linear optimization" was accepted for a talk at QIP 2025!
11/2024 Our paper "Quantum Computing Inspired Iterative Refinement for Semidefinite Optimization" received a was accepted to Mathematical Programming!
10/2024 Our paper "Challenges and Opportunities in Quantum Optimization" was published in Nature Reviews Physics!
10/2024 New Preprint! "Generalized Short Path Algorithms: Towards Super-Quadratic Speedup over Markov Chain Search for Combinatorial Optimization"
09/2024 New Preprint! Strategies for Running the QAOA at hundreds of qubits, with Cain, M., Farhi, E., Gupta, S., Gutmann, S., Ranard, D., Tang, E., and Van Kirk, K..
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