Dirk Oliver Theis

Dr. rer. nat. habil.
Dirk Oliver Theis
Associate Professor
dotheis at ut dot ee

• 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 (since 3/2013)

Research

Theoretical computer science, applied mathematics, quantum computing.

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.

For my theoretical research, I like to write proof-of-concept source code in the mathematical computation programming language Julia (“Julia is the new MATLAB”), often in the form of interactive Pluto notebooks.
Apart from proving theorems, I’m fond of Compiler Engineering (classical and hybrid-quantum/classical) although I have too little time.

Teaching

Current PhD students

• Handy Kurniawan: Quantum Information Processing with Julia
• Evgenii Dolzhkov: Quantum (and quantum inspired) algorithms for optimization
• ½ Anti Ingel

Courses

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

Community

Quantum Community Network (QCN)
I am the Estonian representative to the Quantum Community Network, an initiative of the EU Quantum Flagship.