Dirk Oliver Theis

Dr. rer. nat. habil.
Dirk Oliver Theis
Associate Professor
dotheis at ut dot ee, LinkedIn, @dotheis@mstdn.social

• Diplom in mathematics, Heidelberg (8/2002)
• Dr. rer.nat., Heidelberg (12/2005, summa cum laude🔗)
• Habilitation to Priv.-Doz. in mathematics, Magdeburg (5/2012)
• Assoc. Prof. in Theoretical Computer Science🔗 at Uni Tartu, Estonia, EU, Earth (since 3/2013)

Research

Who I am: Theoretical computer science, applicable mathematics.
What I do: Quantum computing.

Theoretical computer science and mathematics are about proving theorems, which is what I (try to) do most of the time. With my research, I aim to contribute to realizing quantum computing within this decade. To demonstrate my results, I like to write computer code in the open-source mathematical computation programming language Julia (“Julia is the new MATLAB”). Apart from pure theory, I’m fond of Compiler Engineering (classical and hybrid-quantum/classical).

My recent papers:

• On SciRate
• My ArXiv tag
• My ORCID stub will, at some point in the future 🙄, offer a selection of my favorite recent papers & preprints.

Teaching

Current PhD student

• Evgenii Dolzhkov: Quantum (and quantum inspired) algorithms for optimization

Courses

This has changed, I’m teaching less now 👉 Together with my team, I teach / am responsible for the following courses.

• MTAT.05.118 Quantum Algorithms
  • 6 ECTS
  • ➢ Basic quantum algorithms
• LTAT.00.015 Modern Quantum Algorithms
  • 6 ECTS
  • ➢ LCU, QSVT, etc.
• LTAT.00.015 Quantum Error Correction & Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing
  • 6 ECTS
  • ➢ Stabilizer codes, surface codes, fault tolerant QC
• LTAT.00.015 “QIP Light” Quantum Information Processing with Photons
  • 6 ECTS
  • ➢ Measurement-based quantum computing on photonic QC devices
• LTAT.04.004 Quantum Seminar
  • 4×3 ECTS