Emil Khabiboulline

I'm a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) at the University of Maryland, College Park. I completed my PhD at Harvard, supervised by Misha Lukin. My BS is from Caltech, where I was influenced by the folks at IQIM.

- Email: ekhabibo@umd.edu.
- Office: 3353 Atlantic Building.

Research

I work on theory for quantum computing and quantum many-body physics. I also collaborate with experiment on a quantum optics platform. During my PhD, I focused on communication protocols and thermalization. Recently, I have been interested in algorithms for quantum computation and simulation.

Publications

Most can be found at arXiv. Here is a selected list.

Sensing:
- Z. Liu, W. DeRocco, S. Gu, E. T. Khabiboulline, S. Choi, A. M. Childs, A. Hook, A. V. Gorshkov, and D. Gottesman. Measuring gravitational lensing time delays with quantum information processing, arXiv:2510.07898.
- E. T. Khabiboulline, J. Borregaard, K. De Greve, and M. D. Lukin, Optical Interferometry with Quantum Networks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 070504 (2019).
- E. T. Khabiboulline, J. Borregaard, K. De Greve, and M. D. Lukin, Quantum-Assisted Telescope Arrays, Phys. Rev. A 100, 022316 (2019). Featured in MIT Technology Review!

Security:
- E. T. Khabiboulline, J. S. Sandhu, M. U. Gambetta, M. D. Lukin, and J. Borregaard, Efficient Quantum Voting with Information-Theoretic Security, arXiv:2112.14242. In revision for PRX Quantum.

Simulation:
- T. Schuster, B. Kobrin, P. Gao, I. Cong, E. T. Khabiboulline, N. M. Linke, M. D. Lukin, C. Monroe, B. Yoshida, and N. Y. Yao, Many-Body Quantum Teleportation via Operator Spreading in the Traversable Wormhole Protocol, Phys. Rev. X 12, 031013 (2022).

Algorithms:
- A. M. Dalzell, S. McArdle, M. Berta, P. Bienias, C.-F. Chen, A. Gilyén, C. T. Hann, M. J. Kastoryano, E. T. Khabiboulline, A. Kubica, G. Salton, S. Wang, and F. G. S. L. Brandão. Quantum Algorithms: A Survey of Applications and End-to-end Complexities, Cambridge University Press (2025).

Service

- Reviewer for Phys. Rev. Letters, ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, Phys. Rev. A, EPJ Quantum Technology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), npj Quantum Information, IEEE Transactions on Computers.

- Referee for YQIS, QIP, QCrypt, Quantum Computing Theory in Practice.

Instruction

- Teaching Fellow for Harvard Computer Science 127/227 (Cryptography).

- Teaching Fellow for Harvard Physics 271 (Topics in the Physics of Quantum Information).

Funding

- Postdoctoral: National Resource Council Research Associateship Programs.

- Graduate: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

- Undergraduate: Stamps Scholarship, Dunham Scholarship, and Fermi Research Alliance Scholarship.

Employment

- Research Scientist Intern at Amazon Quantum Computing.