Andrea Rocchetto

I am the co-founder and CEO of Ephos, a photonic chip manufacturer.

Before founding Ephos, I was an It from Qubit Simons Collaboration Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where I was advised by Scott Aaronson.

Prior to that I was a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford advised by Simone Severini, a Graduate Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a member of the UCL CS Quantum group in the Department of Computer Science at University College London.

The interplay between physics and computation is at center of my work. I am particularly fascinated by modelling quantum mechanics with data-driven tools and exploring whether machine learning algorithms running on quantum computers can help us discover new physics. These questions where the focus of my PhD thesis, Algorithmic Models in Quantum Mechanics. All my research papers are available on arXiv.