Jamie Sikora

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Postdoctoral Researcher
Phd: Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo 2012

Areas of Research:
Quantum Foundations,
Quantum Information
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/jamiesikora/

Positions Held

  • 2014-2017 Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore. Postdoctoral researcher.
  • 2012-2014 Université Paris 7 - Diderot. Postdoctoral Researcher.

Recent Publications

  • Gus Gutoski, Ansis Rosmanis, Jamie Sikora. Fidelity of quantum strategies with applications to cryptography. Quantum, to appear. arXiv: 1704.04033.
  • Sevag Gharibian and Jamie Sikora. Ground state connectivity of local Hamiltonians. ACM Transactions on Computation Theory, vol. 10, issue 2, article number 8, 2018. arXiv: 1409.3182.
  • Jamie Sikora and John Selby. Simple proof of the impossibility of bit-commitment in generalised probabilistic theories using cone programming. Phys. Rev. A 97, 042302 (2018). arXiv: 1711.02662.
  • Jamie Sikora. Simple, near-optimal quantum protocols for die-rolling. Cryptography 2017, 1(2), 11. arXiv: 1605.08156.
  • Sevag Gharibian, Miklos Santha, Jamie Sikora, Aarthi Sundaram, Justin Yirka. Quantum generalizations of the polynomial hierarchy with applications to QMA(2). arXiv: 1805.11139
  • John Selby and Jamie Sikora. How to make unforgeable money in generalised probabilistic theories. arXiv: 1803.10279.
  • Zhaohui Wei, Jamie Sikora. Device-independent dimension test in a multiparty Bell experiment. arXiv: 1707.03125.
  • Sevag Gharibian, Miklos Santha, Jamie Sikora, Aarthi Sundaram, Justin Yirka. Quantum generalizations of the polynomial hierarchy with applications to QMA(2). MFCS, to appear. arXiv: 1805.11139.

Seminars

  • GPT-safe Cryptography. Natal, Brazil.
  • Fidelity of quantum strategies with applications to cryptography. Fredericton, Canada.
  • GPT-safe Cryptography. Shenzhen, China.
  • Semidefinite programming and quantum cryptography. Cambridge, UK.