Theory of Quantum Computing and Quantum Information

David (Dawei) Ding

Associate Professor, Fudan University
Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and
Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIMIS)

I research the use of quantum nonlocality for coordination between multiple parties in latency-sensitive settings. I am also pursuing a bottom-up approach to quantum computing by exploring new hardware-native quantum gates.

Portrait of Dawei Ding

Research

Quantum telepathy

Using quantum entanglement to coordinate decisions between parties with restricted communication.

Quantum computing at the physical layer

Hardware-aware theory for quantum gates, circuit compilation, benchmarking, and computer architecture.

Quantum Shannon theory

Quantum communication, channel capacities, feedback-assisted communication, and scrambling.

Selected Publications

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  1. 2026
    On the KAK Decomposition and Equivalence Classes

    Dawei Ding, Yu Liu, Zi-Wen Liu

  2. 2026
  3. 2025
    Quantum Nonlocality under Latency Constraints

    Dawei Ding, Zhengfeng Ji, Pierre Pocreau, Mingze Xu, Xinyu Xu

  4. 2024
  5. 2024
  6. 2022
  7. 2021
  8. 2020
    Finding Angles for Quantum Signal Processing with Machine Precision

    Rui Chao, Dawei Ding, Andras Gilyen, Cupjin Huang, Mario Szegedy

  9. 2019
  10. 2018
    Out-of-time-order Operators and the Butterfly Effect

    Jordan Cotler, Dawei Ding, Geoffrey Penington

  11. 2016

Background

Appointments

2025—present
Associate Professor, Fudan University and SIMIS
2024—2025
Assistant Professor, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University
2019—2023
Quantum Scientist, Alibaba Quantum Laboratory

Education

2019
PhD in Theoretical Physics, Stanford University
2014
BA in Physics and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Public Talks

  1. Coordinating Decisions via Quantum Telepathy

    Quantum Computer Systems Lecture Series

  2. One Gate Scheme to Rule Them All: Introducing a Complex Yet Reduced Instruction Set for Quantum Computing

    The International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)

  3. Quantum Computing at the Physical Layer

    Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (YMSC) Seminar, Tsinghua University

Selected Media Articles

  1. Boosting simulation of quantum computers

    Nature Computational Science News & Views

Group Members

Students

2026—
Jiyu Jiang
2026—
Yewen Wang

Postdocs

2024—
Xinyu Xu

Miscellaneous

  1. I am a Christian and acknowledge God for His provisions in my papers.

  2. I am an academic descendant of Paul Dirac, via the path "Myself - Patrick Hayden - Artur Ekert - David Deutsch - Dennis Sciama - Paul Dirac."

  3. My Erdős number is 2, via the path "Myself - Mario Szegedy - Paul Erdős."