Program Year:
1
University:
Stanford University
Field of Study:
Applied Mathematics
Advisor:
Jeongwan Haah
Degree(s):
B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022
Summary of Research
I am interested in random quantum circuits and quantum cellular automata.
Annual Program Review Abstracts
Publications
Baer, Tim, and Jeongwan Haah. "Random unitary circuits with constant spectral gap." arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.20919 (2026).
Baer, Tim, Raghavendra Kanakagiri, and Edgar Solomonik. "Parallel Minimum Spanning Forest Computation using Sparse Matrix Kernels." 2022 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing. 2022.
Awards
DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, 09/2025-08/2029
ICME First-Year Fellowship, 09/2025-08/2026
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (Honorable Mention), 12/2021
Franz Hohn and J.P. Nash Scholarship, 05/2021
Senior 100 Honorary, 04/2022