Biography
Dr Kissinger is a Professor of Quantum Computing, a Supernumerary Fellow at St Hilda’s College, and joint head of the Quantum Group in the Department of Computer Science. His research focuses on quantum software, namely quantum compilation, fault-tolerant quantum computing, and classical simulation and verification of quantum computations. Much of his work draws on diagrammatic and graph-theoretic approaches to reasoning about quantum systems. He is the co-author of two textbooks: Picturing Quantum Processes, a.k.a. "The Dodo Book", which teaches quantum theory from first principles using string diagrams; and Picturing Quantum Software, a freely-available book that introduces the basics of quantum compiling and fault-tolerant quantum computing using the ZX calculus.
He completed his Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Afterwards, he spent just under a decade in Oxford in various roles (visiting student, MSc, DPhil, postdoc) and colleges (St Catherine's, Wolfson). This was followed by four years as an Assistant Professor of Quantum Structures and Logic at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL before returing to Oxford in 2019.
His hobbies include playing the guitar and dancing tango.
For a complete, updated list of publications, see: https://cs.ox.ac.uk/people/Aleks.Kissinger
Positions
- Fellow in Quantum Computing
Subjects
- Computer Science
