Dr. Shilin Huang completed his undergraduate studies in the Yao Class at Tsinghua University in 2018, majoring in computer science while also enjoying mathematics and physics. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University in 2023, supervised by Prof. Kenneth R. Brown.  He then spent one year as a postdoc at Yale Quantum Institute, working in Prof. Shruti Puri’s research group. He joined the Department of Physics at HKUST as an assistant professor in 2024. 

Currently, Dr. Huang conducts theoretical research in quantum information science. He applies algebra to construct useful fault-tolerant quantum error correction circuits, which are crucial for the development of large-scale, reliable quantum computers. He has also collaborated with experimentalists on developing robust control pulses for various quantum devices, such as trapped atomic ions. His long-term research goal is to gain a deeper understanding of nature through the lenses of information and computation

Representative Publications

• Increasing memory lifetime of quantum low-density parity check codes with sliding-window noisy syndrome decoding, S. Huang and S. Puri, Phys. Rev. A 110 (1), 012453 (2024)
• Homomorphic logical measurements, S. Huang, T. Jochym-O’Connor and T. J. Yoder, PRX Quantum 4 (3), 030301 (2023)
• Crosstalk suppression and individually addressed two-qubit gates in a trapped-ion quantum computer, C. Fang, Y. Wang, S. Huang, K. R. Brown and J. Kim, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129 (24), 240504 (2022)
• Between Shor and Steane: A unifying construction for measuring error syndromes, S. Huang and K. R. Brown, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127 (9), 090505 (2021)
• Fault-tolerant weighted union-find decoding on the toric code, S. Huang, M. Newman and K. R. Brown, Phys. Rev. A 102 (1), 012419 (2020)
• Fault-tolerant compass codes, S. Huang and K. R. Brown, Phys. Rev. A 101 (4), 042312 (2020)