Andrew Childs
Director & PI
University of Maryland
RQS Executive CouncilRQS Senior Investigator

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Andrew Childs is a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland and is the director of the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation. He also serves as co-director of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. His main research interests are in the theory of quantum information processing, especially quantum algorithms. Childs received his doctorate in physics from MIT in 2004.
Recent Publications
Efficiently Verifiable Quantum Advantage on Near-Term Analog Quantum Simulators
, , PRX Quantum, 6, (2025)PRXQuantum.6.010341.pdfToward a 2D Local Implementation of Quantum LDPC Codes
, , PRX Quantum, 6, (2025)PRXQuantum.6.010306.pdfQuantum Routing with Teleportation
, , Phys. Rev. Research, 6, (2024)PhysRevResearch.6.033313.pdf
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