Emma Hughes

I am a QI CDT student, currently in the first year of my PhD programme at the University of Edinburgh. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in physics from Trinity College Dublin and a Master’s degree in Quantum Science and Technology from UCLA. During my Master’s thesis, I worked to improve the simulation of entanglement distribution protocols in noisy, near term quantum networks. I am interested in developing and evaluating quantum algorithms for practical applications with the aim of identifying quantum advantage in meaningful contexts, and I hope to focus on novel algorithms in the context of quantum machine learning with a focus on both theoretical developments and practical implementations in near term quantum devices