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Kengo Hirata

PhD student

Research Interests:

Quantum Programming Language, Categoty Theory

I am a PhD student in the LFCS at University of Edinburgh, under the supervison of Chris Heunen.


I am interested in programming languages, type theory, and category theory. Especially, I am interested in design, implementation, and semantics of quantum programming languages.

Featured Publications:

Kengo Hirata, Chris Heunen, "Qurts: Automatic Quantum Uncomputation by Affine Types with Lifetime" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3704842

Informatics Forum,

The University of Edinburgh,

10 Crichton St,

Newington,

Edinburgh,

EH8 9AB

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