Inna Lukyanenko

I am a mathematical physicist, currently investigating the security of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) using machine learning techniques, specifically Quantum Circuit Learning (QCL).

Email: inna.lukyanenko@student.uq.edu.au

Interests in computer science:

Quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum networking, security of quantum key distribution, quantum circuit learning; instruction set architecture and circuit design (digital and quantum)

Interests in mathematics:

Quantum integrable and exactly solvable models, boundary quantum inverse scattering method, BCS models of superconductivity, Richardson-Gaudin models, representation theory of quantum groups

Interests in psychology:

Happiness and meaning in life, moral psychology, depression and anxiety, ASD and ADHD, theories of consciousness, artificial intelligence, free will

Professional experience:

August 2021 - September 2024, Research Associate in Mathematical Physics, the University of Queensland
April 2016 - April 2017, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mathematical Physics, the University of Melbourne

Academic education:

August 2024 - present, Master of Cyber Security, the University of Queensland, Australia
Supervisor: Marius Portmann
Masters Thesis: Optimising attacks on quantum key distribution with quantum circuit learning
Current GPA: 7
January 2018 - January 2020, Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Advanced), the University of Melbourne, Australia
Honours Thesis: The effect of social expectancies to be happy on perceived meaning in life

October 2012 - August 2016, PhD in Mathematics, the University of Queensland, Australia
PhD Thesis: Richardson-Gaudin models from the boundary quantum inverse scattering method
Supervisors: Jon Links and Phillip Isaac
October 2007 - October 2011, PhD in Mathematics (withdrawn), Berlin Technical University, Germany
Research Area: Discrete Differential Geometry
Supervisor: Alexander Bobenko
September 2003 - June 2008, Diploma in Mathematics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Diploma Thesis: Fundamental R-matrix for the quantum integrable model with symmetry algebra GL_q(2)
Supervisor: Andrei Bytsko

Teaching experience:

February 2017 - May 2019, Linear Algebra and MATLAB, School of Mathematics and Statistics, the University of Melbourne
August 2014 - October 2014, Algebraic Methods of Mathematical Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, the University of Queensland
December 2013 - January 2014, Multivariate Calculus and Ordinary Differential Equations, School of Mathematics and Physics, the University of Queensland

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