Gayane Vardoyan

Gayane Vardoyan is an Assistant Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences. Prior to coming to UMass, Vardoyan was an Assistant Professor at the QuTech Advanced Research Centre (Quantum Internet Division) and the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science at TU Delft. Vardoyan was a postdoctoral researcher at QuTech, where she was advised by Prof. Stephanie Wehner. Vardoyan holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she was advised by Prof. Don Towsley.

As the idea of a Quantum Internet draws nearer to reality, protocols must be developed to enable users to reap as many of the potential benefits of this new technology as possible. A fundamental challenge in quantum networking is long-distance entanglement distribution — to actualize such a task with near-term quantum devices of limited functionality, special care is needed to ensure that quantum-equipped users have entanglement of sufficiently high quality at their disposal.

One focus of Vardoyan's group is thus to develop efficient entanglement distribution algorithms, often inspired both by analytical models of quantum network architectures, as well as techniques found in classical networking literature. In general, the group is interested in addressing the many challenges pertaining to distributed quantum systems, as well as seeking new quantum-enabled possibilities and applications.