2025

Gabriel Landi

Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, NY

Areas: Energy Harvesting Devices, Open Quantum Systems, Quantum Computing, Quantum Sensing, Quantum Thermodynamics, Transport and Metrology

Gabriel T. Landi is an associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Rochester, where he directs the Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Transport group (QT2). He also serves as an associate editor of Physical Review Research. Professor Landi’s research sits at the crossroads of quantum information science, open quantum systems and nonequilibrium statistical physics. He is particularly recognized for his work in quantum thermodynamics and quantum transport: developing theoretical frameworks that reformulate thermodynamic laws in the quantum-coherent regime, analyzing quantum stochastic processes and investigating how coherence and fluctuations influence energy, entropy and information in small and strongly coupled quantum systems. His interests span theory of open quantum systems, quantum stochastic processes, quantum information theory and quantum metrology. A distinctive aspect of Professor Landi’s contributions is his design and deployment of a specialized computational framework built in Mathematica: the Melt library. Melt is a fully self-contained Mathematica notebook/package developed under his direction with the QT2 group, which provides users with a high-level yet transparent environment for simulating and analyzing open quantum systems, quantum information measures, Gaussian states, full-counting statistics and more. In his current role, he leads the QT2 research group, which applies advanced methods of quantum trajectories, full‐counting statistics and stochastic thermodynamics to explore fundamental questions (e.g., how irreversibility emerges at the quantum level) and to propose novel applications—including quantum sensing, thermal machines, energy harvesting at the nanoscale and quantum transport devices. Professor Landi’s work has gained widespread recognition in the community. His group publishes regularly in leading journals and is frequently invited to contribute to seminars and workshops on quantum thermodynamics and transport. He is also committed to mentoring the next generation of researchers and to advancing the theoretical foundations of quantum nonequilibrium physics.

2025

Mahn-Soo Choi

Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Korea University
Director, School of Quantum, Korea University

Areas: Quantum Computing, Quantum Information, Theoretical Physics

Mahn-Soo Choi is a professor of physics at Korea University in South Korea and holds a PhD in physics from POSTECH in 1998. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Basel in Switzerland and a research fellowship at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, he joined the Faculty of Physics at Korea University in 2002.

Choi’s research interests have evolved from his doctoral dissertation in condensed matter theory to encompass quantum computation and quantum information. His areas of expertise include quantum algorithms, quantum simulations, superconducting qubits, spin qubits in quantum dots and circuit quantum electrodynamics in quantum hybrid systems, as well as mesoscopic transport.

In the early 2000s, Choi initiated the development of Mathematica packages specifically designed for students studying quantum many-body systems and quantum spin systems. His primary objective was to assist students in prioritizing essential physics concepts over technical calculations. These packages eventually evolved into Q3, a symbolic quantum simulation framework implemented in Wolfram Language. Q3 was released to the public in 2020 through a GitHub repository and was subsequently featured in his recent book published by Springer titled A Quantum Computation Workbook.

2024

Andrew Lütken

Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

Areas: Mathematics, Modeling Condensed Matter Systems Using Tools from String Theory, Quantum Computing, Quantum Field and String Theory

After obtaining his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, Andrew Lütken worked at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita), the University of Oxford, Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies (IFAE) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Oslo, where he has been a professor of physics for 30 years. He is now the executive director of the Quantum Computing Lab at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi.

Lütken has used Wolfram extensively in particle physics, quantum field theory and the analysis of ground state strings (the construction and classification of Calabi–Yau manifolds). Together with the late Graham Ross (University of Oxford), he has shown that a new type of “modular” symmetry appears in nature (in the quantum Hall effect). He has recently built the first quantum computing lab in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including a chip foundry that has fabricated the first quantum computers in this part of the world.