Mingyuan Wang 王明元

I am a Physics PhD candidate in the Department of Physics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, working with Stefan Krastanov in the Center for Quantum Networks (NSF ERC). My research focuses on multipartite entanglement and quantum error correction, with the goal of developing resource-efficient protocols for distributed quantum systems and fault-tolerant architectures.

I study how to prepare and purify entangled quantum states when operations are noisy and resources are limited. I combine stabilizer and Clifford methods, graph theory, and optimization to find compact descriptions of quantum states and design efficient distillation circuits.

With collaborators, I developed methods for GHZ-preserving gates and optimized distillation, and extended this approach to graph-state purification across local Clifford orbits. I also develop Julia software to simulate these protocols and explore circuit designs.

My current work studies sequence control under correlated noise and how graph-state construction shapes errors for downstream protocols. These questions motivate my longer-term interest in co-designing quantum resources, syndrome-extraction circuits, and hardware for distributed fault-tolerant systems.

I also serve as Engineering Workforce Development Liaison on the CQN Student and Postdoc Leadership Council.