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Shiwen An

Ph.D. candidate in Information and Communication Engineering
Institute of Science Tokyo
4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku
Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics. Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously.

— David L. Goodstein, States of Matter

Biography

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology), where I am supervised by Prof. Konstantinos Slavakis. My research focuses on the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning.

I obtained my B.S. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego and my M.S. in Experimental Particle Physics from KEK.

Research

Scientific computing. LogosQ is a quantum computing library written in Rust, focused on efficient circuit simulation and optimization. Tutorials and documentation are at logosqbook.vercel.app. ManifoldsGPU.jl brings GPU and CUDA acceleration to the JuliaManifolds ecosystem, so that Riemannian optimization on products of unitary and Stiefel manifolds runs on the accelerator instead of falling back to the CPU. It grew out of the training needs of pdft. Both projects are open source, and contributions are welcome.

Quantum machine learning. I work on learnable Fourier bases and parameterized tensor networks. Viewed as a circuit of one- and two-qubit gates, the quantum Fourier transform becomes a family of bases that can be trained on unitary manifolds while keeping exact invertibility and near-linear transform cost. Trained this way, pdft compresses images better than the fixed DFT or DCT (arXiv:2608.00053), and with the Hadamards held fixed the same circuits inpaint images with minimum coherence guaranteed by construction (arXiv:2609.17298). Earlier work proposed a tensor-based binary graph encoding for variational quantum classifiers.

News

Sep 2026 "Quantum-Inspired Trainable and Parameter-Efficient Tensor Networks for Image Inpainting" got published on arXiv.
Aug 2026 "Fast Trainable Multilinear Bases for Image Compression" got published on arXiv.
Apr 2026 "Problem Reductions at Scale: Agentic Integration of Computationally Hard Problems" got published on arXiv.
Jan 2026 Visiting scholar at HKUST Guangzhou from January to March 2026.
Dec 2025 The official paper on the LogosQ is published on Arxiv
Apr 2025 The paper on graph encoding with variational quantum circuit is accepted by IEEE QCNC 2025 in Nara, Japan.

Details of each item are on the news page.


Last updated September 17, 2026.