Jingbo Wang

Professor Jingbo Wang received her PhD from the Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics in Adelaide University, and subsequently worked at Adelaide University, Murdoch University, and The University of Western Australia. She established and currently leads an active research group at The University of Western Australia working in the area of quantum simulation, quantum walks, and quantum algorithm development.  

Professor Wang pioneered cutting edge research involving, in particular, single and multiple particle quantum walks. Her research team was the first to show the power of quantum walks in extracting local and global structural information of complex networks and in distinguishing a wide range of non-isomorphic graph classes.  The team also developed a general quantum compiler with an optimiser, which maps a given quantum algorithm to a quantum circuit consisting a sequential set of elementary quantum logic gates. It provides a powerful tool to assist the design of actual physical implementation of quantum algorithms in laboratories. Professor Wang and her team have recently obtained some of the most efficient quantum circuits to implement a wide variety of quantum operators, which could underpin the utmost quantum supremacy.

Professor Wang is also the Head of Physics Department and the chair of a newly formed cross-disciplinary research cluster named “Quantum information, simulation and algorithms” within the Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at UWA.

• AsiaBound grants for the project “Research training and collaboration in quantum technology” (2014)

• iVEC grant of internships for the projects “Entanglement dynamics in multi-quantum walkers” and “Visualisation of entangled quantum walkers” (2011 - 2012)

• iVEC grant of internships for the projects “Quantum computer simulation” and “Quantum walk visualization” (2010 - 2011)

• iVEC grant of internship for the project “Electronic Structure of Quantum Dots” (2009)

• UWA Research Grant for the project “Quantum random walk on graphs” (2008)

• iVEC grant of internship for the projects “Quantum dynamics of qubits” and “Quantum dot structure” (2008)

• ARC Discovery Grant for the project “Quantum dynamics of solid-state qubits” (2004-2007)

• iVEC grant of internship for the project “Testing Quantum Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism” (2007)

• iVEC grant of internship for the project “Multidimensional Quantum Random Walk” (2006)

• UWA Research Grant for the project “Quantum dynamics of qu-bits and qu-gates” (2004)

• ARC Large Grant for the project “Acoustic wave propagator and its applications” (2001-2004, with J. Pan)

• UWA Research Grant for the project “Electronic Structure Of Quantum Dots” (2002)

• Curriculum Planning and Development Award for the project “Development of a computational physics stream as part of the undergraduate physics curriculum in UWA” (2002 - 2003)

• CATL (Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning) Development Award for the project “Animated Physics” (2002, with P. Hammond)

• UWA Research Grant for the project “Quantum scattering” (2001)

• ARC Large Grant for the project “Complete coherence analysis of higher-lying states of inert-gas atoms” (1998-2000, with A.T. Stelbovics)

• ARC Small Grant for the project “Quantum transport in nanometer scale electronic devices” (2000)

• ARC Small Grant for the project “Quantum transport in nano electronic devices” (1999)

• ARC Small Grant for the project “Ionisation of argon inner shells ” (1998)

• ARC Small Grant for the project “Complete description of electron-atom scattering” (1997)

• ARC Small Grant for the project “Coherence in electron-atom collisions” (1996)

• ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (1995)

• Peer-reviewed competitive grants of service units on the VP-100, VP-2200, VPP-300 and the APAC Compaq supercomputers at ANU for various large-scale computational projects (1990, 1996-2002), and more recently on iVEC’s Carlin, Conage, XE, EPIC, Fornax, and Magnus (2003-present).