Education

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2019 - Present)
Candidate for Ph.D. in Physics
Research advisor: Bryan K. Clark

Franklin and Marshall College (2015 - 2019)
Bachelor in Physics with Honors, and Bachelor in Mathematics, summa cum laude
Research advisor: Gregory Adkins
Honors thesis: Calculating higher order corrections to positronium energy levels using NRQED and the method of regions

Research Interests

• Dynamic quantum circuits
• Tensor networks for quantum information
• Algorithms for quantum evolution and compilation

Publications

Quantum Computing

• Faisal Alam, Bryan K. Clark, Learning dynamic quantum circuits for efficient state preparation, arXiv:2410.09030
• Noah Berthusen, Faisal Alam, Yu Zhang, Multi-reference quantum Davidson algorithm for quantum dynamics, arXiv:2406.08675
• Faisal Alam, Bryan K. Clark, Variational algorithms for quantum dynamics with short depth quantum circuits (presented at APS March Meeting 2023), paper in preparation
• Faisal Alam, Lucas Slattery, Bryan K. Clark, Finding excited states on a quantum computer using unitary block optimization with VQE (presented at APS March Meeting 2022), paper in preparation
• Keerthi Kumaran, Faisal Alam, Norhan Eassa, Kaelyn Ferris, Xiao Xiao, Lukasz Cincio, Nicholas Bronn, Arnab Banerjee, Transmon qutrit-based simulation of spin-1 AKLT systems, arXiv:XXXX

High Energy Theory

• Gregory S. Adkins, Md Faisal Alam, Conor Larison, Ruosi Sun, Coulomb expectation values in D=3 and D=3-2ε dimensions, arXiv:1908.02324

Pulsars and Gravitational Waves

• Gabriela Agazie et al, The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Observations and Timing of 68 Millisecond Pulsars, arXiv:2306.16217
• Md F. Alam et al, The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Observations and Narrowband Timing of 47 Millisecond Pulsars, arXiv:2005.06490
• Md F. Alam et al, The NANOGrav 12.5-year Data Set: Wideband Timing of 47 Millisecond Pulsars, arXiv:2005.06495
• Shinnosuke Hisano et al, A Parkes Murriyang Search for Pulsars and Transients in the Large Magellanic Cloud, arXiv:2202.11054
• C. Patel et al, PALFA Single-Pulse Pipeline: New Pulsars, Rotating Radio Transients, and a Candidate Fast Radio Burst, arXiv:1808.03710

Experience

• Quantum Error Correction Summer School 2022 hosted by IBM
• Quantum Computing Summer School Fellowship 2023 at LANL
• Graduate Research Assistant in Theoretical Division of LANL (2024-Present)

Programming Skills

• Languages: Python, Mathematica, Julia, C++
• Libraries: Qiskit, JAX, TensorNetwork, ITensor