About me

I’m Brandon, a master’s student in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the Colorado School of Mines. I obtained my BS in Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines.

I am grateful to be advised by Dr. Lincoln Carr and co-advised by Dr. Cecilia Diniz Behn at Mines.

This fall, I am visiting graduate researcher at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM).

Research

My research interests lie broadly at the intersection of quantum computing and quantum many-body physics. I am particularly interested in classical machine learning for quantum systems, and quantum algorithms for discrete optimization. In particular, I enjoy working on graph problems.

My work is supported by the NSF-NRT Quantum Engineering Fellowship through the Quantum Engineering Program at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM).

Interests
  • Quantum many body physics
  • Machine learning
  • Graph theory and network science
  • Mathematical physics

Publications

E Kapit, BA Barton, S Feeney, G Grattan, P Patnaik, JC Sagal, LD Carr, V Oganesyan (2023). On the approximability of random-hypergraph MAX-3-XORSAT problems with quantum algorithms. arXiv:2312.06104.

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G Grattan, BA Barton, S Feeney, G Mossi, P Patnaik, JC Sagal, LD Carr, V Oganesyan, E Kapit (2023). Exponential acceleration of macroscopic quantum tunneling in a Floquet Ising model. arXiv:2311.17814.

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