Yuan Liu

Biography

Yuan Liu is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at North Carolina State University. He is also an affiliated faculty in Physics. He received his B.S. in physics (with honors) from Tsinghua University in Beijing. He received his M.S. in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in chemical physics with the William R. Potter Prize from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Prior to joining NC State faculty, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Research Laboratory of Electronics and Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.

His research interests lie at the intersection of quantum information science, theoretical chemistry and physics, and quantum engineering. Some recent topics include quantum algorithms and simulation, quantum signal processing, hybrid continuous-discrete-variable quantum computing, algorithmic-level error-correction and quantum sensing.

Liu serves as Lead at NC State's Center for Hybrid Quantum Computing. By uniting discrete-variable (qubit) and continuous-variable (bosonic mode) systems, the center is working to create powerful hybrid quantum platforms that push performance beyond both classical and qubit-only computers.

Education

• Ph.D. 2020
  Chemical Physics
  Brown University
• Master's 2018
  Electrical Engineering
  Brown University
• Bachelor's 2015
  Physics
  Tsinghua University

Recent Publications

• QBE-SQD code and data (2026)
• QBE-SQD code and data (2026)
• Scalable quantum computational science: A perspective from block-encodings and polynomial transformations (2026)
• Towards Utility-Scale Electronic Structure with Sample-Based Quantum Bootstrap Embedding (2026)
• Towards utility-scale electronic structure with sample-based quantum bootstrap embedding (2026)
• A Computational Framework for Simulations of Dissipative Nonadiabatic Dynamics on Hybrid Oscillator-Qubit Quantum Devices (2025)
• Clifford Circuit-Based Heuristic Optimization of Fermion-To-Qubit Mappings (2025)
• Co-designing Spectral Transformation Oracles with Hybrid Oscillator-Qubit Quantum Processors: From Algorithms to Compilation (2025)
• Genesis: A Compiler for Hamiltonian Simulation on Hybrid CV-DV Quantum Computers (2025)
• Hybrid Oscillator-Qubit Quantum Processors: Instruction Set Architecture, Abstract Machine Models, and Applications (2025)