About

I am a computer science PhD candidate (ABD), with an emphasis in quantum information science, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). My advisor is Dr. Sebastian Deffner. I am a member of the Quantum Thermodynamics Group at UMBC. My research interest is quantum information theory, specifically error-assisted quantum algorithms. I am a UMBC Cyber Graduate Fellow, an affiliated graduate student in the Quantum Science Institute, and a former teaching assistant for Dr. Lomonaco's Quantum Computing class.

I also work part-time as a Quantum Computing Engineer, Specialist for KBR. At KBR I work on quantum algorithm design, quantum error correction, and architecture-aware algorithm compilation with resource estimation.

Selected Publications

• Introducing UNIQuE: The Unconventional Noiseless Intermediate Quantum Emulator
  Reece Robertson & Dan Ventura
  IEEE CASCON 2025—Research Object Reviewed Badge arxiv:2409.07000 UNIQuE GitHub
• Simon's Period Finding on a Quantum Annealer
  Reece Robertson, Emery Doucet, Zakaria Mzaouali, Krzysztof Domino, Bartłomiej Gardas, Sebastian Deffner
  arxiv:2504.10771 INQA Seminar (YouTube)
• Simon's algorithm in the NISQ cloud
  Reece Robertson, Emery Doucet, Ernest Spicer, Sebastian Deffner
  Entropy 27, 658 (2025) arxiv:2406.11771
• On the Baltimore Light RailLink into the quantum future
  Krzysztof Domino, Emery Doucet, Reece Robertson, Bartłomiej Gardas, Sebastian Deffner
  Scientific Reports 15, 29576 (2025) arxiv:2406.11268