Samuel Tan

Quantum Computing Research Assistant at University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland, United States

About

To live, innovate and design

Experience

  • Quantum Error Correction Theory Research Intern at IBM
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Quantum Computing Research Assistant at University of Maryland
    Aug 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Project 1: (Mentored by Prof. Daniel Gottesman and Michael Gullans) • Working on logical gates for quantum LDPC codes Project 2: (Mentored by Prof. Murphy Yuezhen Niu) • Working on quantum metrology algorithm using quantum signal processing • Co-author for the manuscript, "Signal-Processing Phase Estimation against Time-dependent Errors", accepted as a talk at the 19th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2024)

  • Quantum Error Correction Research Intern at QuEra Computing Inc.
    May 2025 - Dec 2025 · 8 mos

    Project 1: (Mentored by Hengyun (Harry) Zhou and Chen Zhao) • Working on efficient decoding schemes for quantum LDPC codes

  • Quantum Research Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory
    May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

    Project 1: (Mentored by Yiğit Subaşı and Andrew Sornborger) • Used classical signal analysis techniques and Lagrange optimization to find optimal tapers for the quantum phase estimation algorithm • First author for the paper, "Optimal Coherent Quantum Phase Estimation via Tapering", presented as a talk at APS March Meeting 2024 Project 2: (Mentored by Yiğit Subaşı and Sam Slezak) • Working on fixing the quantum metropolis sampling algorithm by exploring new strategies to achieve quantum detailed balance

  • Quantum Computing Research Assistant at Caltech
    May 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Project 1: (Mentored by Prof. John Preskill and Chris Pattison) • Analyzed the resilience of surface codes against cosmic rays and estimated the teraquop footprint • First author for the paper "Resilience of the surface code to error bursts" submitted to Physical Review A • Poster presented at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Error Correction (QEC 2023)