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\textbf{Dr Ross Duncan} is the Head of Quantum Software at CQC
where he leads a team of 10 researchers and software developers.
He invented the \zxcalculus (with Coecke) (1) and started the
Quantomatic project (with Kissinger and Dixon) (2) and has pioneered
the application of the \zxcalculus to MBQC (3), quantum error
correcting codes (4), and circuit optimisation (5). His current focus is
Quantomatic project (with Kissinger and L. Dixon) and has pioneered
the application of the \zxcalculus to MBQC (2), quantum error
correcting codes (3), and circuit optimisation (4,5). His current focus is
on compilation for NISQ quantum devices.
He is also a permanent Research Fellow at the University of
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postdoctoral fellowship. He was the first person to obtain a
doctorate from the Oxford quantum group, in 2006.
\textit{\color{gray} \textbf{Publications:} (1) B. Coecke and ---
. Interacting quantum observables: Categorical algebra and
diagrammatics. NJP 13 (043016), 2011. (2) --- and S.
Perdrix. Rewriting measurement-based quantum computations with
generalised flow. In ICALP 2010, Springer LNCS 6199 (3)
L. Garvie and ---. Verifying the smallest interesting colour
code with quantomatic. In Proc QPL'17 vol 266, 2017. (4)
A. Fagan and --- . Optimising Clifford circuits with
Quantomatic. In Proc QPL'19, EPTCS vol. 287, 2019. (5) ---,
A. Kissinger, S. Pedrix, and J. van de Wetering. Graph-theoretic
simplification of quantum circuits with the
ZX-calculus. arXiv:1902.03178, 2019.}
\textbf{Mr Will Simmons} is a Research Software Developer at CQC.
He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Cambridge
Univeristy and a Masters in the Foundation of Computer Science
Univeristy and a Masters in the Foundations of Computer Science
from Oxford. At CQC his focus is developing new optimisation
methods for quantum circuits and high performance rewriting
techniques for graphical terms for CQC's \tket compiler.
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