Welcome to three CQT Fellows

(From left) Welcome to Mile Gu, Ho Wen Wei and Dario Poletti!

CQT has a goal of being a national centre that brings together quantum researchers from across Singapore’s research organisations. One step towards this is the appointment of three new CQT Fellows. Welcome to Mile Gu, Ho Wen Wei and Dario Poletti!

The appointment of CQT Fellow gives a researcher with a group already established at one of Singapore’s universities or research institutes some extra support from the Centre. They can also advise students admitted into the CQT PhD programme. CQT currently has one other Fellow under this track: Ng Hui Khoon at Yale-NUS College.

The new appointees join her from three different institutions. Mile is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Wen Wei is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Dario Poletti is an Associate Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).

For some, it’s not their first entanglement with CQT. Mile and Dario both previously did postdocs at the Centre. Mile then went to a faculty position at Tsinghua University in Beijing before returning to Singapore in 2016 as a National Research Foundation Fellow.

His research focuses on the intersection of quantum and complexity science. As he explains it: "What are the key features of reality we need to track to excel at various tasks we wish to perform, be it navigating a maze, extracting energy from complex environments or predicting the rise or fall of stock markets? Can these features be better isolated by agents capable of quantum information processing? My research aims to tackle these questions – which provide a great premise to interface ideas from thermodynamics, quantum, complexity and data science."

Dario joined SUTD after his postdoc at CQT, where he has since been promoted to Head of the Science, Mathematics and Technology Department. “I am very happy to be officially part of CQT after my postdoc days here more than 10 years ago. At each corridor of CQT I can find really good scientists from quantum computer science to theoretical and experimental quantum physics to interact with. I hope to bring a bit of SUTD DNA in the way we look at technology and integrate design,” he says.

Wen Wei joined the Department of Physics at NUS in 2022, with an appointment as a Presidential Young Professor. He had just two completed two postdocs in the United States at Stanford University and before that Harvard University. In 2023, he was awarded a National Research Foundation Fellowship for research on “Non-equilibrium Many-Body Physics and Quantum Information Science in the age of Programmable Quantum Systems”.

“My research aims to theoretically predict and characterise the universal aspects of quantum many-body systems brought far out-of-equilibrium, specifically using the lens of the dynamics of quantum information. I look forward to insightful discussions with my colleagues at CQT, as well as potential collaborations realising some of theoretical predictions in the lab,” he says.

Learn more about all three new CQT Fellows and their research at their group pages:

• Mile Gu Group
• Ho Wen Wei Group
• Dario Poletti Group