About

My name is Senrui Chen. I am an incoming IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech starting in July 2025. I obtained PhD in Quantum Science and Engineering from the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at UChicago in 2025, advised by Liang Jiang. My PhD thesis is Topics in Pauli Channel Learning: Quantum Advantages, Quantum Noise Characterization, and Quantum Error Mitigation.

My current research intersects quantum learning/sensing/estimation theory and quantum error characterization/mitigation/correction. I am interested in both theory problems and experimental challenges in quantum information science.

Email: csenrui at gmail dot com

News

2024.10 I received the 2024 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize, which recognizes early-career researchers for work that moves the field of quantum information science and engineering in new directions!

Selected Papers and Preprints

See Google Scholar for a full list of publications. Co-first authorship is indicated by $\dagger$.

  • Disambiguating Pauli noise in quantum computers
    Edward H. Chen$\dagger$, Senrui Chen$\dagger$, Laurin E. Fischer$\dagger$, Andrew Eddins, Luke C. G. Govia, Brad Mitchell, Andre He, Youngseok Kim, Liang Jiang, Alireza Seif
    arXiv: 2505.22629 (2025)
    [arXiv]
  • Efficient benchmarking of logical magic state
    Su-un Lee$\dagger$, Ming Yuan$\dagger$, Senrui Chen, Kento Tsubouchi, Liang Jiang
    arXiv: 2505.09687 (2025)
    [arXiv]
  • Quantum learning advantage on a scalable photonic platform
    Zheng-Hao Liu, Romain Brunel, Emil E. B. Østergaard, Oscar Cordero, Senrui Chen, Yat Wong, Jens A. H. Nielsen, Axel B. Bregnsbo, Sisi Zhou, Hsin-Yuan Huang, Changhun Oh, Liang Jiang, John Preskill, Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen, Ulrik L. Andersen
    arXiv: 2502.07770 (2025)
    [arXiv]
  • Randomized measurements for multi-parameter quantum metrology
    Sisi Zhou, Senrui Chen
    arXiv: 2502.03536 (2025)
    [arXiv] [Codes]
  • Efficient self-consistent learning of gate set Pauli noise
    Senrui Chen, Zhihan Zhang, Liang Jiang, Steven T. Flammia
    28th Annual Quantum Information Processing Conference (QIP 2025)
    arXiv: 2410.03906 (2024)
    [arXiv] [Slides at QIP] [Codes]
  • Entanglement-enhanced learning of quantum processes at scale
    Alireza Seif$\dagger$, Senrui Chen$\dagger$, Swarnadeep Majumder, Haoran Liao, Derek S. Wang, Moein Malekakhlagh, Ali Javadi-Abhari, Liang Jiang, Zlatko K. Minev
    arXiv: 2408.03376 (2024)
    [arXiv]
  • Generalized cycle benchmarking algorithm for characterizing mid-circuit measurements
    Zhihan Zhang, Senrui Chen, Yunchao Liu, Liang Jiang
    PRX Quantum, 2025
    [arXiv] [PRX Quantum] [Slides at March Meeting]
  • Entanglement-enabled advantage for learning a bosonic random displacement channel
    Changhun Oh$\dagger$, Senrui Chen$\dagger$, Yat Wong, Sisi Zhou, Hsin-Yuan Huang, Jens A.H. Nielsen, Zheng-Hao Liu, Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen, Ulrik L. Andersen, Liang Jiang, John Preskill
    Physical Review Letters, 2024
    [arXiv] [PRL]
  • Tight bounds on Pauli channel learning without entanglement
    Senrui Chen, Changhun Oh, Sisi Zhou, Hsin-Yuan Huang, Liang Jiang
    Physical Review Letters, 2024
    [arXiv] [PRL]
  • The learnability of Pauli noise
    Senrui Chen$\dagger$, Yunchao Liu$\dagger$, Matthew Otten, Alireza Seif, Bill Fefferman, Liang Jiang
    Nature Communications, 2023
    [arXiv] [Nat Commun] [talk at IBM] [talk at TQC]
  • Quantum advantages for Pauli channel estimation
    Senrui Chen, Sisi Zhou, Alireza Seif, Liang Jiang
    Physical Review A, 2022
    [arXiv] [PRA]
  • Robust shadow estimation
    Senrui Chen$\dagger$, Wenjun Yu$\dagger$, Pei Zeng, Steve Flammia
    PRX Quantum, 2021
    [arXiv] [PRX Quantum] [talk at TQC21]
  • Entanglement-breaking superchannels
    Senrui Chen, Eric Chitambar
    Quantum, 2020
    [arXiv] [Quantum]
  • One-shot coherence distillation with catalysts
    Senrui Chen, Xingjian Zhang, You Zhou, Qi Zhao
    Physical Review A, 2019
    [arXiv] [PRA]