Scholar
John Bostanci
Google Scholar ID: dqN-sYkAAAAJ
PhD Student, Columbia University
Citations & Impact
Citations
136
H-index
7
i10-index
6
Publications
15
Co-authors
18
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Selected Publications: 'Learning the closest product state,' STOC 2025, QIP 2025 short plenary talk; 'A General Duality for Representations of Groups with Applications to Quantum Money, Lightning, and Fire,' STOC 2025, QIP 2025 contributed talk, QCrypt 2025 invited plenary talk; 'An efficient quantum parallel repetition theorem and applications,' STOC 2024, QIP 2024 short plenary talk; 'Unitary Complexity and the Uhlmann Transformation Problem,' QIP 2024 long plenary talk.
Research Experience
- TA for Introduction to Quantum Computing at Columbia in Fall 2022; TA for Topological Aspects of Error Correcting Codes at the Park City Mathematics Institute Graduate Summer School in Summer 2023; Intern at NTT Research working with Mark Zhandry in Summer 2024; Worked at Kalshi derivatives exchange, designing and building the exchange and connections with external parties; Worked at Citadel on the Alpha Research and Development team, involved in X-Alpha and Leonov projects.
Education
- PhD: Theory Group at Columbia University, advised by Henry Yuen; Graduate Student: Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, advised by John Watrous.
Background
- Research Interests: Theoretical computer science, with a focus on quantum computation. Research areas include understanding fully-quantum tasks such as quantum cryptography, unitary complexity theory, and algorithms for learning from quantum data.
Miscellany
- Slides used for candidacy exam at Columbia.
