About

My name is Senrui Chen. I am a fifth-year PhD student in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at UChicago, advised by Liang Jiang.

My current research intersects quantum learning/sensing/estimation theory and quantum error characterization/mitigation/correction. I am interested in both fundamental theory problems and realistic experimental challenges. My ultimate goal is to push quantum information science towards practical applications.

Email: csenrui at gmail dot com

News

🔥 2025.01 I will join Caltech as an IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar starting in the Summer of 2025.

🔥 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 $\dagger$.

• 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]
• 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]
• 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]