Kevin Thompson

Biography

Kevin has been at Sandia since 2019, first as a postdoc then as a staff member.  He is an applied mathematician/theoretical computer scientist and with primary focus in quantum optimization.  Additionally, he has expertise in many other subfields of quantum information including quantum error correction, quantum pseudorandomness, optics, and Hamiltonian computing.  He is part of the Department of Energy’s Fundamental Algorithmic Research for Quantum Computing (FAR-QC) project as well as the Sandia Quantum Algorithms and Applications Collaboratory (QuAAC).  He is excited by learning new mathematics and applying it to problems in quantum information. 

Education

• UC Berkeley 2007-2012.  B.S.E. degree in Engineering Physics with a Minor in Mathematics.  During that time I had research experience in Plasmonics, Image analysis and astrophysics.
• Harvard 2012-2018.  Masters and PhD in Applied math.  Focus was on quantum error correction and Hamiltonian computing.
• Sandia 2019-2020. Postdoc.  Wrote several papers on approximation algorithms for the local Hamiltonian problem.
• Sandia 2020-present. Senior member of Technical staff.

Publications

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Selected Publications

• https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/1.9781611977554.ch48
• https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18316/
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08342
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15688