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Xiongfeng Ma

Professor
Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University

Office: MMW-S323, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Quantum information and quantum optics



Education

 

Apr. 2008           Ph.D.                   Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Canada

Jul. 2003            B.Sc.                    School of Physics, Peking University, China

 

 

Research Experience

 

2019–present    Changjiang Distinguished Professor                     Center for Quantum Information, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, China

2023–present    Professor                                                                   Center for Quantum Information, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, China

2018–2023        Associate Professor                                                  Center for Quantum Information, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, China

2012–2018        Assistant Professor                                                  Center for Quantum Information, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, China

2011–2012        Visiting Researcher                                                  University of Leeds, UK

2011                   Postdoctoral Fellow                                                 University of Toronto, Canada

2008–2010        Postdoctoral Fellow                                                 Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada

 

 

Research Summary

 

Xiongfeng Ma's primary field of research in quantum information science includes quantum key distribution, quantum random number generation, (semi) self-testing / device-independent quantum information processing, multipartite entanglement, quantum resource theory (such as coherence and entanglement measures), quantum benchmarking, quantum computing, quantum network, and quantum hacking. In particular, his research works explore the connections among quantum cryptography, quantum foundation theory, and quantum computing.

  • Publications: 120 journal papers, 36 patents, and 17 conference proceedings, including 1 in Reviews of Modern Physics, 4 in PRX, 20 in PRL, 2 in Nature, 1 in Nature Photonics,  1 in Nature Communication, 2 Optica, and 2 PNAS.
  • SCI Citations: 9800 with an H-index of 48; from \url{https://webofscience.clarivate.cn/wos/author/record/B-2000-2008}
  • Google Scholar Citations: 15179 with an H-index of 57; from \url{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xxckIDQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao}
  • According to the Scientometric Assessment of Global Publications from 1992 to 2019, Xiongfeng was one of the most productive researchers worldwide in quantum cryptography by ResearchGate \url{https://doi.org/10.1080/0194262X.2021.1892563}.

 

 

Honors and Awards

 

  • Fellow, American Physical Society (2023)
  • Changjiang Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China (2019)
  • IOP Outstanding Reviewer Award, (2019)
  • OSA Outstanding Reviewer Award, (2018)
  • Tsinghua Distinguished Teaching Award, (2018)
  • Lachlan Gilchrist Fellowship, Canada, (2007)

 

 

Ph.D. Students Supervision

 

  • Xiao Yuan, Ph.D. 2016, "Interplay between Quantumness, Randomness, and Selftesting", faculty at Peking University
  • Jiajun Ma, Ph.D. 2017, "Quantum Information Processing with Coherence and Quantum Correlations", editor of the QKD ISO standard
  • Zhen Zhang, Ph.D. 2017, "Security analysis of practical quantum cryptography", senior researcher at Worldquant LLC
  • Qi Zhao, Ph.D. 2018, "Coherence and Entanglement in Quantum Information Processing", faculty at the University of Hong Kong
  • Hongyi Zhou, Ph.D. 2019, "Quantum Randomness Generation and Quantification", faculty at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • You Zhou, Ph.D. 2019, "Quantifying quantum resources and its application", faculty at Fudan University
  • Pei Zeng, Ph.D. 2020, "Toward a reliable and high performance quantum communication system", post-doc at the University of Chicago
  • Yihong Zhang, Ph.D. 2022, "Quantum Benchmarking and Variational Quantum Algorithms", post-doc at Peking University
  • Xingjian Zhang, Ph.D. 2023, "Theory and Applications of Device-Independent Quantum Information Processing", post-doc at the University of Hong Kong
  • Yizhi Huang, Ph.D. 2024, “Practical and efficient quantum key distribution system”, researcher at ZZ Quantum