Dr. Oleksandr Kyriienko

Dr. Oleksandr Kyriienko is a Ukrainian theoretical physicist working in the fields of quantum computing and quantum optics.

Currently he is a Senior Lecturer at the Physics department of the University of Exeter. Previously he was a Fellow at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA), located in Stockholm, Sweden. He did postdoctoral research at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Oleksandr obtained the PhD degree from the University of Iceland, and was a visiting PhD in different institutions, including Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Dr. Kyriienko started out as a theoretical physicist in condensed-matter physics, but he applied it to optics and semiconductor systems that are used to create lasers, which are actively used in the industry. In particular, he has been working on theories for nonlinear optical response and establishing quantum polaritonics. Since quantum optical systems have other excellent properties, like the ability to process quantum information and distribute it in the network, he grew strong interested in quantum computing. Within recent years Oleksandr has developed quantum protocols for machine learning and solving differential equations, helping to build the area of quantum scientific machine learning.