- Antonio Anna Mele

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Our new work Strong unitary designs in optimal depth and space is now available on arXiv.
I was invited to speak at the Quantum Innovators Theory Workshop 2026 at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo — a workshop bringing together early-career researchers making an impact on quantum information research.
I was invited to serve on the Program Committee of QIP 2027.

Our work Optimal learning of quantum channels in diamond distance was accepted in principle for publication in Nature Physics!
Our new work Quantum memory advantage for quantum process tomography is now available on arXiv.
I completed a summer research stay at Google Quantum AI in Los Angeles, working with Jarrod McClean.
I am honored to be invited to serve on the Programme Committee of QTML 2026.

I gave an invited tutorial on Quantum Learning Theory for Bosonic and Fermionic Systems at the EPFL Bernoulli Center, as part of the program Intersection of Quantum Learning Theory, Quantum Sensing, and Quantum Verification. Video · Notes

I was awarded a 2025 Google PhD Fellowship in Quantum Computing.
I gave a tutorial on Haar Integration Tools in Quantum Information at AIMS in Cape Town, as part of the school and workshop The Theory of Quantum Learning Algorithms.
Our new work Efficient learning of bosonic Gaussian unitaries became available on arXiv.

I was an invited lecturer at the QMATH Masterclass on Representation Theory in Quantum Information Science at the University of Copenhagen, giving lectures on representation theory, Haar-measure tools, and the Clifford commutant. Notes · Haar tutorial · Clifford slides
I gave a public talk on quantum computing at TEDx Policoro together with my twin brother, Francesco Anna Mele. Video

I presented our work Effect of noise in typical quantum circuits at the Understanding Quantum Machine Learning workshop at the Galileo Galilei Institute in Florence. Slides
Our work Real classical shadows was published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.
Our new work Characterizing quantum resourcefulness via group-Fourier decompositions became available on arXiv.

I gave invited talks at the Perimeter Institute on Learning and testing quantum states of fermionic systems and at the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics on Effect of noise in typical quantum circuits. Fermionic slides · Perimeter video · Noise slides

I gave an invited seminar at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa on Effect of noise in typical quantum circuits. Slides
Our new work A complete theory of the Clifford commutant became available on arXiv.

Two of our works were presented as talks at QIP 2025: Learning and testing quantum states of fermionic systems (Slides · Video) and Tomography of bosonic systems and optimal estimates of the trace distance between Gaussian states (Video).
Our work Efficient learning of quantum states prepared with few fermionic non-Gaussian gates was published in PRX Quantum.
Our new work Simulating quantum circuits with arbitrary local noise using Pauli propagation became available on arXiv.

2024: I served on the Program Committee of QIP 2025.
2024: I spent the summer doing research at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working with Marco Cerezo on quantum resource theories.
2024: Our work Learning fermionic correlations by evolving with random translationally invariant Hamiltonians was published in Physical Review Letters.
2024: Our works Noise-induced shallow circuits and the absence of barren plateaus (Slides · Video) and Learning quantum states of continuous-variable systems (Video) were presented as talks at TQC 2024.
2024: My tutorial Introduction to Haar Measure Tools in Quantum Information: A Beginner’s Tutorial was published in Quantum.