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 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 uchicago dot edu

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

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

Quantum Learning, Estimation, and Characterization

  • 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 APQC]
  • 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]
  • A generalized cycle benchmarking algorithm for characterizing mid-circuit measurements
    Zhihan Zhang, Senrui Chen, Yunchao Liu, Liang Jiang
    PRX Quantum (accepted)
    arXiv: 2406.02669 (2024)
    [arXiv]
  • 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]

Quantum Information Theory

  • 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]