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: 3100 Atlantic Building, Room 3353; University of Maryland.

Research

I work on theory for quantum computing and quantum many-body physics, and collaborate with experiment on a quantum optics platform. My focus is on communication protocols with applications in sensing and security. I also have interests 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. Accepted to TQC 2026.
- 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:
- D. J. Spencer, K. Shi, E. T. Khabiboulline, G. Alagic, and A. V. Gorshkov, Differentially private quantum sensor networks, arXiv:2607.06521.
- 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.

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 Nature Communications, Phys. Rev. Letters, ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, Phys. Rev. A, EPJ Quantum Technology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, npj Quantum Information, IEEE Transactions on Computers.

- Referee for Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC), Young Quantum Information Scientists (YQIS), Quantum Information Processing (QIP), QCrypt (Quantum Cryptography), Quantum Computing Theory in Practice (QCTiP).

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.