James Hefford
Scholar

James Hefford

Google Scholar ID: lEuOe5MAAAAJ
Inria
Quantum FoundationsApplied Category TheoryQuantum Information
Citations & Impact
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Citations
97
 
H-index
6
 
i10-index
3
 
Publications
12
 
Co-authors
0
 
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • A BV-Category of Spacetime Interventions, with M. Wilson, Preprint, 2025.
  • A Profunctorial Semantics for Quantum Supermaps, with M. Wilson, Logic in Computer Science, 2024.
  • Optics for Premonoidal Categories, with M. Román, Applied Category Theory, 2023.
  • The Produoidal Algebra of Process Decomposition, with M. Earnshaw, M. Román, Computer Science Logic, 2024.
  • On the Pre- and Promonoidal Structure of Spacetime, with A. Kissinger, Applied Category Theory, 2022.
  • Coend Optics for Quantum Combs, with C. Comfort, Applied Category Theory, 2022.
  • Optimal local unitary encoding circuits for the surface code, with O. Higgott, M. Wilson, J. Dborin, F. Hanif, S. Burton, D.E. Browne, In Quantum, 2021.
  • CPM Categories for Galois Extensions, with S. Gogioso, Quantum Physics and Logic, 2021.
  • Hyper-decoherence in Density Hypercubes, with S. Gogioso, Quantum Physics and Logic, 2020.
Research Experience
  • Currently a postdoctoral researcher at Inria de Saclay, part of the Quacs group at LMF.
Education
  • DPhil from the University of Oxford; MSci in Mathematics from Imperial College London; MRes in Quantum Technologies from University College London.
Background
  • An Inria postdoctoral researcher in the Quacs group at LMF. Interests include category theory and its application to problems in physics, particularly quantum theory and models of spacetime.
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