Junseo Lee
I’m a first-year PhD student at Harvard University, where I’m fortunate to be advised by Anurag Anshu, Sitan Chen, and Jordan Cotler. My doctoral studies are supported by the Kwanjeong PhD Fellowship.
I’m affiliated with the Harvard Quantum Initiative and the Theory of Computation Group, and serve as an NSF IAIFI Junior Investigator at MIT.
My research explores the computational aspects of quantum many-body physics, spanning foundational theoretical questions and applications in quantum information processing.
Before joining Harvard, I was a research fellow at Seoul National University, affiliated with the Institute of Computer Technology and the Research Institute of Mathematics, hosted by Kabgyun Jeong.
I received my B.S. from Yonsei University as a Hyundai Motor CMK Scholar.
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Selected Papers
- Hamiltonian locality testing and certification do not achieve the Heisenberg limit
(with Francisco Escudero Gutiérrez, Sebastian Zur)
Manuscript (2026)
- Emergent prethermal symmetries for scalable Hamiltonian learning
(with Myeongjin Shin, Iman Marvian, Yu Tong)
Manuscript (2026)
- Heisenberg-limited Hamiltonian learning without short-time control
(with Myeongjin Shin, Changhun Oh)
PRX Quantum 7, 043011 (2026), AQIS 2026 (Long talk)
- Certifying and learning local quantum Hamiltonians
(with Andreas Bluhm, Matthias C. Caro, Francisco Escudero Gutiérrez, Aadil Oufkir, Cambyse Rouzé, Myeongjin Shin)
TQC 2026 (Contributed talk)
- Efficient learning of bosonic Gaussian unitaries
(with Marco Fanizza, Vishnu Iyer, Antonio Anna Mele, Francesco Anna Mele)
QIP 2026 (Contributed talk)
- Resource-efficient algorithm for estimating the trace of quantum state powers
(with Myeongjin Shin, Seungwoo Lee, Kabgyun Jeong)
Quantum 9, 1832 (2025)