A little bit about me

I'm a first-year PhD student in Prof. Alex May's group at the Perimeter Insitute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. I completed my BSc in the Honours Mathematics and Physics program at McGill University in 2024, and wrote my thesis in Gaussian Unitary Simulation with Symmetrically Extendible Channels under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Hayden (Stanford University) and Prof. Alex Maloney (McGill University). When I first entered the field of Quantum Information theory in 2021, I worked in Quantum Key Distribution at the National Research Council of Canada and the Institute for Quantum Computing -- and while I still maintain roots in cryptography, my main areas of interest are quantum communication theory, entanglement theory, and resource theories.

I try to remind myself to sustain a life outside of physics. To this end, I devote some evenings to my favourite wordsmiths (Kurt Vonnegut, Rita Dove, Maggie Smith, Harold Bloom, Lionel Trilling, to name a few), and more rarely to my own (much less-successful) configuring of words. My most frequent modality of consumption is poetry or poetic criticism.

Note: all of the above endevours are graciously tolerated by my sweet bundle of chaos Margot the |

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Topics I want to work on

Anything in Quantum Error Correction, fault tolerance

My Menace and her hobbies

Causing mayhem, eating the covers of great works of literature, sharing her opinion when no one asked

Recent Research