Ali ALMASI

PhD-track Student at IP Paris

I am interested in quantum information science, mostly the information-theoretic and complexity-theoretic aspects. I enjoy using tools from optimization theory, mathematical analysis, and discrete mathematics to tackle problems in these areas.

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Experience Skills Education Publications

Education

M.Sc. in Computer Science (PhD-track Program)
École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
2023 - 2025 (expected)

B.Sc. in Pure Mathematics, Minor in Computer Science
Sharif University of Technology
2018 - 2023

Research Projects

Quantum Guessing Games (M1 Internship) | Summer 2024

Report, Poster, Slides

• Supervised by Peter Brown and Cambyse Rouzé
• An investigation of quantum guessing games, a generalization of quantum state discrimination and antidiscrimination, in which we found closed-form solutions for specific games, defined and analyzed the pretty good measurement for this generalization, and studied the convergence behaviour of an iterative algorithm for determining the optimal strategy.

Positive but not Completely Positive Maps | Fall 2023

Report, Slides

• Supervised by Peter Brown
• A numerical and analytical study of the properties of positive but not completely positive (PnCP) maps, focusing on their applications in entanglement detection and relaxing certain optimization problems over the set of separable quantum states. Using semidefinite programming, we explored the relationship between two fundamental entanglement criteria: positivity under partial application of a PnCP map and entanglement witnesses.

Quantum Proofs | Fall 2022

Thesis

• Supervised by Shahram Khazaei
• A pedagogical survey (in Persian) intended to be an introduction to quantum complexity theory, focusing on QMA, a quantum analogue of NP.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant at Sharif University | 2019 - 2023

• Courses: Mathematical Logic, Automata Theory, Theory of Computer Science, Elementary Functional Analysis, Probability and Applications, Linear Algebra, Complex Analysis, Topology
• See this for more details.

Part-time Mathematics Teacher

• Allameh Helli Middle School (2019), Allameh Helli 3 Middle School (2019), Allameh Helli 5 High School (2023)

Mentor at Calculus 1 Problem-Solving Workshop, Hamband Scientific Association | Fall 2019

Other Academic Activities

Head Organizer and Mentor of the Sharif Mathematics Summer School | Summer 2019

• You can find more information about the event here.

Member of Hamband Scientific Association | 2019 - 2020

• More information about Hamband (and in particular, the year I was a member) can be found here.

Editorial Board of Sharif Students Mathematics Journal | 2023

Interests Outside Academia

Digital Art

• Here are some of my works.

Classical Music

Persian Poetry

• Here are some of my poems (in Persian).