The University of Southampton is expanding its PhD research in the area of Quantum Technology Engineering. In addition to the research project outlined below you will receive substantial training in scientific, technical, and commercial skills.

This project looks at efficient quantum machine learning strategies, where near term quantum computers promise significant computational gains in a range of machine learning applications. Whilst advantages due to quantum parallelism and entanglement have been shown in a range of applications, efficient encoding of classical information into an entangled quantum state is known to be computationally challenging in general.

In this project, you will study and explore the entire computational chain, exploring the interaction of classical dimensionality reduction methods with subsequent quantum encoding strategies, coupled with efficient quantum machine learning performed on the low-dimensional, encoded state. Depending on the tas...