Matthew Prest

Matthew Prest

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Physics PhD candidate at the City University of New York working on quantum information theory.

Niels Bohr Quantum Summer School

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A Quick Summer Update

I’ve been working hard this summer with both wedding planning and research. I am particularly grateful to have been selected to attend the 2026 Niels Bohr Quantum Summer School in Denmark in August. I am excited for the chance to learn alongside students from around the world from brilliant faculty and to enjoy the sights, sounds and tastes of a Scandinavian summer. I’ll be sure to post again during/after the conference with some of the details about the lectures and projects that interest me. Until then, this summer will be incredibly full so I may post less than I have been!

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ACM PQQS 2026

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ACM PQQS 2026

This week I had the chance to attend and present at ACM’s post quamtum and quantum security conference in Silicon Valley. I’d spent the last year and a bit working on my second quantum cryptography publication titled “Multi-client Verifiable Blind Delegated Quantum Computing,” which is quite a mouthful. I enjoyed working on this project as much, if not more than my earlier quantum Byzantine agreement paper however this definitely took more work. This was a lesson in stumbling around an unfamiliar field, slowly uncovering what has been done before and where we could make a contribution. In hindsight, I wish I had taken more time with my literature review at the beginning to get a clearer picture of the research frontier. I am grateful to have learned a tremendous amount throughout the process and the opportunity to present at an ACM conference was a great reward. My slides and the full paper are available on my site if you’re curious!