Junyu Zhou

Hi everyone, I'm Junyu! I am a PhD student in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. I was an undergraduate visiting student at Penn in 2023 and started my research on quantum computing since then. I received my B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Wuhan University in 2024 and I graduated from Yali High School (founded in 1906 by Yale-in-China) in 2020.

I am working at Penn Quantum System Lab, advised by Gushu Li. We have addressed several major software challenges in fault-tolerant quantum computing:

• Decoding: Our tool FusionQ enables real-time, low-latency quantum error-correction decoding (U.S. patent application filed).

• Logical Operation Design: Our tool GeneCS is the first software to efficiently construct fault-tolerant logical operations across arbitrary quantum stabilizer codes.

• Compilation: Our lattice surgery compiler TopoLS has been integrated into the TQEC ecosystem.

My goal is to contribute to the development of next-gen quantum computers for practical use. My office is next to the world's first general-purpose electronic computer: ENIAC. 

Professional Appointments:

• 2026 Summer, Quantum Research Intern, Microsoft 

• 2025 Summer, Quantum Research Intern, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Awards and Honors:

•  2024, Manjushri Fellowship, Penn Engineering

Service:

•  2026, Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing