I'm a researcher in quantum computing, who will be a postdoc at the Simons Institute, UC Berkeley starting in fall 2026. I have been thinking about quantum complexity theory, quantum algorithms, and fault-tolerant computation.
Previously, I received my PhD from Harvard University in 2026, working with Prof. Anurag Anshu, affiliated with the Harvard Quantum Initiative and the Theory of Computation group, and supported by an IBM PhD Fellowship. Even before, I obtained my bachelors degree in physics and computer science from MIT in 2022.
Contact: thequynhqb at pm dot me, or 𝕏 @nguyenquantum.
Recent works
(See my Google Scholar for full list)
A distillation–teleportation protocol for fault-tolerant QRAM, with Alex M. Dalzell, Andras Gilyén, Connor T. Hann, Sam McArdle, Grant Salton, Aleksander Kubica, Fernando Brandao
arxiv:2505.20265, FOCS 2025, QIP 2026
Learning quantum Gibbs states locally and efficiently, with Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen, Anurag Anshu
arxiv:2504.02706, FOCS 2025, QIP 2026
Quantum fault tolerance with constant-space and logarithmic-time overheads, with Christopher A. Pattison
arxiv:2411.03632, QIP 2025 & STOC 2025 & QEC 2025
On the complexity of unique quantum witnesses and quantum approximate counting, with Anurag Anshu, Jonas Haferkamp, Yeongwoo Hwang
arxiv:2410.23811, ITCS 2026 & TQC 2026
Good binary quantum codes with transversal CCZ gate
arxiv:2408.10140, QIP2025 (Long plenary talk & Best student paper award) & STOC 2025
The mixed Schur transform: efficient quantum circuit and applications
arxiv:2310.01613, QIP 2024
Circuit-to-Hamiltonian from tensor networks and fault tolerance, with Anurag Anshu and Nikolas P. Breuckmann
arxiv:2309.16475, QIP 2024 & STOC 2024
Updates
[July 2026] I'm spending this summer at Google Quantum AI.
[June 2026] I enjoyed 5 months visiting the Simons Institute.
[October 2025] I served as a program committee member for the QIP 2026 conference.
[July 2025] I enjoyed 2 months visiting the Simons Institute.
[March 2025] I served as a program committee member for the QEC 2025 conference.
[August 2024] I enjoyed 3 months interning at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing.
[August 2024] I created this new webpage. My old webpage from 2021 is here.
[May 2024] I enjoyed 3 months visiting the Simons Institute at UC Berkeley, where I was participating in the Spring 2024 quantum program.