About me!

“Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet.” – Anonymous

I am a 3rd year doctoral candidate at the Institute of Science, Tokyo (prev. Tokyo Institute of Technology). My current research interest are,

Unconventional computing architectures (Coherent Computing, Qauntum Computing, etc.)
Combinatorial Optimisation (Compressed Sensing, Ising Ground states, etc.)
High-Performance Computing (GPU computing, Supercomputers, etc.)

Recent years have seen a constant increase in the use of unconventional computing architectures for information processing. A major reason for this is the rise of quantum computers, which claimed to be capable of solving some problems that classical computers have difficulty solving. It is necessary to note, however, that these quantum computers have hardware challenges due to physical limitations (e.g. systems using superconductors and operating near 0K temperatures). Alternatively, photon-based systems are more suitable in this case due to their capability to operate at room temperature. However, these photonic systems are much harder to scale up. Quantum systems can be used to solve combinatorial optimization problems such as L0-regularised compressed sensing, drug discovery, etc., but they all come with their own set of additional difficulties. I am currently exploring how to solve classically-hard real-world problems by numerically simulating these quantum and quantum-inspired systems (in my case, quantum annealers and coherent Ising machines).

News

[18-10-2024] Talk at the International Network on Quantum Annealing 2024 (INQA 2024) conference (Tokyo, Japan)
[01-10-2024] Due to a merger, Tokyo Institute of Technology changed its name to the Institute of Science, Tokyo
[11-08-2024] Talk at the Asia Future Conference (AFC) 2024 conference (Best presentation award) (Bangkok, Thailand)
[08-07-2024] Preliminary defense for doctoral degree program - Day 2
[03-07-2024] Preliminary defense for doctoral degree program - Day 1
[21-04-2024] One talk and a poster has been accepted for Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC) 2024 conference (Glasgow, UK)
[12-04-2024] Talk at the 2024 NTT Retreat meeting (San Francisco, USA)
[18-03-2024] Talk at the 2024 Spring meeting of the Physical socielty of Japan (JPSJ)
[09-02-2024] Invited talk @ NTT-RIKEN workshop on photonics, neural networks, and solving combinatorial optimization problems using specialized hardware systems
[16-01-2024] Two talks (2nd author) has been accepted for 2024 Spring meeting of the Physical socielty of Japan (JPSJ)
[27-12-2023] Talk accepted for 第2回量子アニーリング及び関連技術に関する研究会
[08-12-2023] Accepted for Atsumi International Foundation scholarship
[17-11-2023] Poster accepted for Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2024 conference (Taipei, Taiwan)
[17-11-2023] Paper published in the Journal of Applied Physics
[26-09-2023] Paper published in the journal, Nature Scientific Reports
[30-08-2023] Mid-term evaluation for doctoral degree program - Day 2
[24-08-2023] Mid-term evaluation for doctoral degree program - Day 1
[08-08-2023] Poster presentation at the University of Tokyo for StatPhys28
[22-06-2023] Talk and field visit at the NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi, Kanagawa
[07-06-2023] TokyoTech Student Ambassador Kick-off meeting
[24-10-2022] Poster presentation at the Stanford University for CNC22
[23-10-2023] Field visit to the NTT Physics and Informatics Laboratories, Sunnyvale, Califronia
[15-06-2022] Paper published in the journal, Nature Communications Physics

Sudeera Gunathilaka