Prof. Dr. Sevag Gharibian

Head - Professor
33098 Paderborn

Science Career |
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Since 01.10.2021 |
Professor (W2) Paderborn University, Germany |
01/2018 - 30.09.2021 |
Junior Professor (W1) University of Paderborn, Germany |
08/2014 - 12/2018 |
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Virginia Commonwealth University, U.S.A. |
01/2013 - 08/2014 |
NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 of only 6 awardees Canada-wide in Natural Sciences) Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.. Advisor: Umesh Vazirani. |
01/2014 - 05/2014 |
Simons Postdoctoral Fellow Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.. Advisor: Umesh Vazirani. |
08/2012 - 12/2012 |
Visiting Lecturer Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, U.S.A. |
Training |
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31.08.2012 |
Doctorate D. Phil., Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. Supervisor: Prof. Richard Cleve |
2006 - 2008 |
Degree programme M. Math, University of Waterloo, Canada |
2000 - 2005 |
Degree programme B. Sc. Computer Science (Co-op), University of Waterloo, Canada |
Supporting Activities |
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Since 2015 |
Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases Doctorates Distinguished students Avantika Agarwal, DAAD Wise Undergraduate Research Intern from IIT Delhi, 2022 Dorian Rudolph, Masters 2020, Paderborn University Outstanding Thesis Award Justin Yirka, Undergraduate Research Assistant (2015 – 2018): now PhD at UT Austin with Scott Aaronson |
Recognitions |
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2020 |
Good Practices Digital Teaching Distinction, Paderborn University |
2017 |
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Faculty Mentor Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
2017 |
Teaching Excellence Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
2016 |
Teaching Excellence Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
2012 |
Achievement Award for outstanding research, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada |
2010 - 2012 |
NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, Canada |
Scientific Engagement |
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Organization of Scientific Events |
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Since 2021 |
Invited Talks 2023: (Keynote) Frontiers of near-term quantum computing workshop, Chalmers University, Sweden 2023: 18th Central European Quantum Information Processing workshop (CEQIP), Slovakia 2022: Workshop on The Multiple Facets of Quantum Proofs, STOC 2022, Italy 2022: Quantum & Lattices Reunion Workshop, Simons Institute for Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, USA 2022: (Plenary) Matter and Light for Quantum Computing Conference, Germany 2022: Workshop on semidefinite and polynomial optimization, CWI, Netherlands 2022: Bad Honnef Physics School on Quantum Computing, Germany 2022: Workshop on Quantum Information, Saarland University, Germany 2021: German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, USA |
Since 2015 |
Program Committee Member: QIP 2023, TQC 2023/2016/2015, ICALP 2022, ISAAC 2017, AQIS 2017 |
Since 2013 |
Outreach YouTube Channel on Quantum Computing. 33.326 views, 837 subscribers |
2022 - 2023 |
Chair, Local Organising Committee, 50th EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2023) |
2021 |
Chair, Organising Committee, Dagstuhl Seminar 20311: Quantum Complexity: Theory and Application |
2016 - 2018 |
Board of Trustees, Computational Complexity Conference (CCC) |
Expert Activities |
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Since 2016 |
Funding Reviewer: ANR France, DAAD Germany, FWF Austria, NSF USA, SC Armenia |
Editorial |
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Since 2016 |
Founding Editor and Coordinating Editor (2021 - present), Quantum |
Since 01.10.2021 |
Professor (W2) Paderborn University, Germany |
Since 2021 |
Invited Talks 2023: (Keynote) Frontiers of near-term quantum computing workshop, Chalmers University, Sweden 2023: 18th Central European Quantum Information Processing workshop (CEQIP), Slovakia 2022: Workshop on The Multiple Facets of Quantum Proofs, STOC 2022, Italy 2022: Quantum & Lattices Reunion Workshop, Simons Institute for Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, USA 2022: (Plenary) Matter and Light for Quantum Computing Conference, Germany 2022: Workshop on semidefinite and polynomial optimization, CWI, Netherlands 2022: Bad Honnef Physics School on Quantum Computing, Germany 2022: Workshop on Quantum Information, Saarland University, Germany 2021: German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, USA |
Since 2016 |
Founding Editor and Coordinating Editor (2021 - present), Quantum |
Since 2016 |
Funding Reviewer: ANR France, DAAD Germany, FWF Austria, NSF USA, SC Armenia |
Since 2015 |
Program Committee Member: QIP 2023, TQC 2023/2016/2015, ICALP 2022, ISAAC 2017, AQIS 2017 |
Since 2015 |
Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases Doctorates Distinguished students Avantika Agarwal, DAAD Wise Undergraduate Research Intern from IIT Delhi, 2022 Dorian Rudolph, Masters 2020, Paderborn University Outstanding Thesis Award Justin Yirka, Undergraduate Research Assistant (2015 – 2018): now PhD at UT Austin with Scott Aaronson |
Since 2013 |
Outreach YouTube Channel on Quantum Computing. 33.326 views, 837 subscribers |
2022 - 2023 |
Chair, Local Organising Committee, 50th EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2023) |
01/2018 - 30.09.2021 |
Junior Professor (W1) University of Paderborn, Germany |
2021 |
Chair, Organising Committee, Dagstuhl Seminar 20311: Quantum Complexity: Theory and Application |
2020 |
Good Practices Digital Teaching Distinction, Paderborn University |
08/2014 - 12/2018 |
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Virginia Commonwealth University, U.S.A. |
2016 - 2018 |
Board of Trustees, Computational Complexity Conference (CCC) |
2017 |
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Faculty Mentor Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
2017 |
Teaching Excellence Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
2016 |
Teaching Excellence Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
01/2013 - 08/2014 |
NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 of only 6 awardees Canada-wide in Natural Sciences) Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.. Advisor: Umesh Vazirani. |
01/2014 - 05/2014 |
Simons Postdoctoral Fellow Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.. Advisor: Umesh Vazirani. |
08/2012 - 12/2012 |
Visiting Lecturer Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, U.S.A. |
31.08.2012 |
Doctorate D. Phil., Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. Supervisor: Prof. Richard Cleve |
2012 |
Achievement Award for outstanding research, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada |
2010 - 2012 |
NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, Canada |
2006 - 2008 |
Degree programme M. Math, University of Waterloo, Canada |
2000 - 2005 |
Degree programme B. Sc. Computer Science (Co-op), University of Waterloo, Canada |