Our distinguished guest speaker for today, Lia Yeh, is a research scientist at Quantuum (part-time) and a computer science DPhil student in the Quantum Group at the University of Oxford. She was funded by a Google PhD Fellowship, and prior to that funded by the university's flagship Clarendon scholarship. Her primary research focus is on applying and developing ZX-calculus and related quantum graphical calculi as a diagrammatic language for quantum error correction, qudits, and photonic quantum computing. Her other research interests include exact circuit synthesis, quantum education, and quantum chemistry. Here's the video recording of her lecture today.

Lia has bachelor's degrees in physics and computing at the College of Creative Studies of the University of California, Santa Barbara where she designed microwave spectroscopy algorithms to determine molecular structure. She currently works as a part-time Research Engineer at Quantinuum, and volunteers with IEEE Quantum Education and with the Quantum Universal Education not-for-profit community. She chaired the student committee of the 2023 and 2024 Quantum Science and Engineering Education Conference, and was its first Program Chair in 2022. Previously, she worked part-time at IBM Quantum Education developing a tutorial as an introduction to quantum computing through ZX-calculus diagrams. Prior to that, she worked part-time teaching some of the 8,000+ high school students in The Coding School non-profit's Qubit by Qubit quantum computing course (2020).

Today's recording will be made available in the afternoon. Please join us at the normal Zoom address for synchronous access to the lecture. Lia will introduce Quantum Picturalism. Her advisor is Prof. Aleks Kissinger who is co-author of Picturing Quantum Processes with Bob Coecke. Lia was going to have her PhD Vita scheduled for this week but she postponed it so she can give us these three guest lectures, today (June 30), on Wed (July 2) and Thu (July 3).