CV
Education
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Inteilligent Systems), California Institute of Technology, 2025 (expected)
Relevant experience
- Student Researcher (senior thesis), Institute of Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), Caltech (Apr. 2024 - Present)
- Quantum Computing Research Analyst, Global Research Technologies Team, JPMorgan Chase & Co (Jun. 2024 - Oct. 2024)
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Institute of Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), Caltech (Apr. 2023 - Oct. 2023)
- Mission Operations and Ground Data Systems Intern, Lunar Trailblazer Mission, Caltech (Jan. 2022 - Jan. 2024)
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum Computation Frameworks for HEP, Caltech & CERN (Jun. 2022 - Oct. 2022)
Publications
- Yiyi Cai, Yu Tong, and John Preskill. Stochastic Error Cancellation in Analog Quantum Simulation. In 19th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 310, pp. 2:1-2:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2024.2
- Elena Scire, Lee Bennett, Judy Adler, Sergio Fajardo-Acosta, Robert Fogg, Elise Furlan, Jacob Llamas, Peter Bahariance, Yiyi Cai, Trinity Chung, Garni Gharibian, Emily Hu, Julianna Jin, Matteo Kimura, Aaron Lee, Michael Mansour, Mahak Mathur, Andy Sun, Jasmine Terrones, Jingchao Zhong, and Bethany Ehlmann ”Lunar trailblazer ground system development”, Proc. SPIE 13098, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems X, 130981K (25 July 2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3027493
Talks
- Yiyi Cai, Yu Tong, and John Preskill. Stochastic Error Cancellation in Analog Quantum Simulations. Contributed oral talk at 2024 Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC); Sep. 9-13th, 2024, Okinawa, Japan.
- Yiyi Cai, Yu Tong, and John Preskill. Stochastic Error Cancellation in Analog Quantum Simulations. Invited talk at Prof. Yongshan Ding’s group, Yale Quantum Institute, Yale University, Aug. 23rd, 2024, New Haven, CT.
- Elena Scire, Lee Bennett, Judy Adler, Sergio Fajardo-Acosta, Robert Fogg, Elise Furlan, Jacob Llamas, Peter Bahariance, Yiyi Cai, Trinity Chung, Garni Gharibian, Emily Hu, Julianna Jin, Matteo Kimura, Aaron Lee, Michael Mansour, Mahak Mathur, Andy Sun, Jasmine Terrones, Jingchao Zhong, and Bethany Ehlmann. Lunar trailblazer ground system development. Contributed oral talk at 2024 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation; Jun. 20th, 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
- Yiyi Cai, Yu Tong, and John Preskill. Stochastic Error Cancellation in Analog Quantum Simulations. Poster talk at 2024 International Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP); Jan. 13-19th, 2024, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Yiyi Cai, Yu Tong, and John Preskill. Stochastic Error Cancellation in Analog Quantum Simulations. Contributed oral talk at Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Western Regional Conference, Nov. 4th, 2023, Long Beach, CA.
- Yiyi Cai, Yu Tong, and John Preskill. Stochastic Error Cancellation in Analog Quantum Simulations. Contributed oral talk presented at 2023 Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Seminar, Aug. 24th, 2023, Pasadena, CA.
- Yiyi Cai, Jean-Roch Vlimant, Samantha Davis, and Maria Spiropulu. Towards Producing realistic LHC QCD simulation using Quantum Generative Adversarial Network through a Quantum Circuit Ansatz Search. Contributed oral talk presented at 2022 Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Seminar, Oct 15th, 2022, Pasadena, CA.
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant for EE 111: Signal-Processing Systems and Transforms (Fall 2024, Caltech)
- Teaching Assistant for EE 10ab: Introduction to Digital Logic and Embedded Systems (Winter, Spring 2024, Caltech)
- Teaching Assistant for EE 55: Mathematics of Electrical Engineering (Fall 2023, Caltech)
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Paper Prize at 2024 TQC
- Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
- Arthur R. Adams Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2023)
- Doris Everhart Quantum Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2022)
- Aspirations in Computing L.A. Affiliate Winner
