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Ruby Wei (Zixian Wei)
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  • Research
    • Quantum Noise
    • MPS and Entanglement
    • Error Mitigation
    • DNA Structures
    • Nucleolus
    • LPP on Breast Cancer
    • Muon Detection
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Ruby Wei (Zixian Wei)
  • PhD (2024 - ???): University of Colorado Boulder, Physics

  • Bachelor of Science (2019 - 2024): McGill University, Honours Physics, Major Physiology and Minor Math

  • Contact: ruby.wei@colorado.edu

  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zixian-ruby-wei/ 

My CV

Publications

      • Ruby Wei, Aqua Chung, Luke Coffman, Su-Kuan Chu, Xun Gao, ``High-Distance Error-Correcting Codes for Fermion-to-Qubit Mappings in 2D and 3D," arXiv:2509.00147.

      • Cynthia Shaheen, Bianca Caminada, Alexis Hilts, Ruby Wei, Jay Botham, Rebecca Johnson, Nane Vardanyan, Eric Boateng, Sabrina Leslie, "Stemless molecular beacon probes for single-molecule detection of supercoil-induced DNA denaturation," submitted to npj Biological Physics and Mechanics (2025).

Research Projects

--- PhD projects ---

  • Quantum Error Correction (Theory):

      • (Ongoing) Developing fermion-to-qubit mappings protected by quantum error-correcting codes (Supervisor: Xun Gao at University of Colorado Boulder)

  • Quantum sensing:

      • (Ongoing) Leveraging Partial Error Detection for Precise Quantum Sensing (Supervisor: Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana at Los Alamos National Lab)

--- Undergraduate projects ---

  • Quantum computing + Machine learning (Numerics):

      • Error mitigation (Supervisor: Titus Neupert at Universität Zürich)

  • Quantum sensing + Quantum computing (Theory):

      • Characterization of quantum noise in quantum computing (Supervisor: William A. Coish at McGill University)

  • Condensed matter physics (Theory):

      • Link between matrix product states and short-range entanglement (Supervisor: Chong Wang at the Perimeter Institute)

  • Biophysics (Numerics + Experiments):

      • DNA secondary structure competition (Supervisor: Sabrina Leslie at the University of British Columbia)

      • Impact of aging on nucleolus biophysical properties (Supervisor: Stephanie Weber at McGill University)

  • Physiology (Numerics): 

      • Protein LPP's role on breast cancer cell migration (Supervisor: Claire Brown at McGill University)

--- High school projects ---

  • Particle physics (Numerics): 

      • Variation in atmospheric muons detection rate (Supervisor: Derek Lawther at the University of Prince Edward Island)

Fun facts about me

  • I love sitting in on lectures: I have audited courses from PhD level physics (quantum condensed matter) to psychology (human motivation, cognitive, etc.), computer science, and more. I aim to audit one course per semester, no matter how many actual courses I'm taking for credit that semester, and I can usually keep auditing that class until almost the end :]

  • By the end of my undergraduate degree, I will have completed 64 courses, whereas a typical student only needs 40 courses to graduate. This is because I have two majors (honours physics and major physiology), while most BSc students at McGill only need one major to graduate. The trade-off is that I took more courses every semester and I took an extra year, but it is totally worth it because I get to learn BOTH how nature works and how the human body works!

  • I aim to learn a new sport every year (since 2015). I do this to stay healthy and make new friends, and now I can play over 10 sports!

  • I have been an undergraduate teaching assistant for over 13,000 students. This is practically half of McGill's population!

Languages

  • English (Fluent), Chinese (Fluent), French (Beginner)

  • Python (Fluent), MATLAB (Fluent),  Mathematica (Fluent), R (Intermediate), C (Beginner)

Familiar SDK:

  • Qiskit

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