Sukin Sim

  • Program Years: 2016-2020
  • Academic Institution: Harvard University
  • Field of Study: Chemical Physics
  • Academic Advisor: Alan Aspuru-Guzik
  • Practicum(s):
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2017)
  • Degree(s):
    B.A. Chemical Physics, Wellesley College, 2016
    Ph.D. Chemical Physics, Harvard University, 2021

Current Status

  • Status: Research Scientist at PsiQuantum
  • Research Area: Chemical Physics

Publications

Sukin Sim, Peter D. Johnson, and Alan Aspuru-Guzik. Expressibility and entangling capability of parameterized quantum circuits for hybrid quantum-classical algorithms. Adv. Quantum Technol., doi:10.1002/qute.201900070.

Yudong Cao, Jonathan Romero, Jonathan P. Olson, Matthias Degroote, Peter D. Johnson, Maria Kieferova, Ian D. Kivlichan, Tim Menke, Borja Peropadre, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Sukin Sim, Libor Veis, and Alan Aspuru-Guzik. Quantum Chemistry in the Age of Quantum Computing. Chem. Rev. 2019 119 (19), 10856-10915.

Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers, Jonathan Romero, Libor Veis, Sukin Sim, and Alan Aspuru-Guzik. Low-depth circuit ansatz for preparing correlated fermionic states on a quantum computer. Quantum Sci. Technol. 4 (2019): 045005.

Sukin Sim, Yudong Cao, Jonathan Romero, Peter D. Johnson, and Alan Aspuru-Guzik. A framework for algorithm deployment on cloud-based quantum computers. arXiv:1810.10576. 2018.

Sukin Sim, Jonathan Romero, Peter D. Johnson, and Alan Aspuru-Guzik. Viewpoint: Quantum Computer Simulates Excited States of Molecule. Physics 11 (2018): 14.

Jarrod R. McClean, Ian D. Kivlichan, Damian S. Steiger, Kevin J. Sung, Yudong Cao, Chengyu Dai, E. Schuyler Fried, Craig Gidney, Thomas Haner, Vojtech Havlicek, Cupjin Huang, Zhang Jiang, Matthew Neeley, Jhonathan Romero, Nicholas Rubin, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Kanav Setia, Sukin Sim, Wei Sun, Fang Zhang and Ryan Babbush. OpenFermion: The Electronic Structure Package for Quantum Computers. arXiv:1710.07629. 2017.

Sim, S., Wang, P., Beyer, B. N., Cutrona, K. J., Radhakrishnan, M. L. and Elmore, D. E. (2017), Investigating the nucleic acid interactions of histone-derived antimicrobial peptides. FEBS Lett, 591: 706-717.

Awards

Harvard University Distinction in Teaching Award (2018).
Rigetti Quantum Computing Hackathon Expert Prize (2018).
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (2016).
Horton-Hallowell Graduate Fellowship (2016).