Thomas Vidick

Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology

After graduating with a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2011, Thomas Vidick spent two years as a postdoc at MIT's CSAIL, under the supervision of Scott Aaronson. He spent the fall of 2013 at the Mathematics of Quantum Information programme at the Newton Institute in Cambridge. Following a Research Fellowship at the Simons Institute in 2014, he joined Caltech as an assistant professor in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department. Vidick's research interests lie in the theory of quantum computation.

Program Visits

Extended Reunion: The Quantum Wave in Computing, Summer 2022, Visiting Scientist
The Quantum Wave in Computing, Spring 2020, Visiting Scientist and Program Organizer
Summer Cluster: Challenges in Quantum Computation, Summer 2018, Visiting Scientist and Program Organizer
Pseudorandomness, Spring 2017, Visiting Scientist
Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity, Spring 2014, Microsoft Research Fellow