CV (last update 2025/04)

Education

• Ph.D in Physics and Quantum Engineering, University of Bristol (Bristol, UK), 2026 (expected)
  With Prof. Jonathan C. F. Matthews, Prof. Anthony Laing, Prof. Krishna C. Balram, and Dr. Joe A. Smith.

• M.S. in Physics, National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan), 2022
  With Prof. Chih-Sung Chuu.

• B.S. in Physics, National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan), 2019

Awards (since 2022)

• 2024 M4QN Lab exchange award
• Taiwan Ministry of Education Scholarship (2024-2026)
• 2024 Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop Best Poster Prize: Crosstalk-Mitigated Microelectronic Control for Optically-Active Spins.
• 2023 Hon Hai Technology Award: awarded for pioneer research on heterogeneous integration of solid-state quantum systems with a foundry photonics platform, link.
• University of Bristol Fully Funded PhD Studentship (2022-2026): awarded for researching large scale spin-photonic integrated circuit for quantum information applications.
• 2022 Postgraduates Student Thesis Award, Physical Society of Taiwan: Hierarchy and Revival of Temporal Quantum Correlations.

Work experience (since 2022)

• 2023-2024 and 2024-2025: Demonstrator of third-year Computational Physics Lectures
  • University of Bristol, School of Physics
• 2023-2024 and 2024-2025: Demonstrator of Programming and Data Analysis for Scientists Lectures
  • University of Bristol, School of Chemistry and School of Physics
• 2023: Student mentor of STEM Foundation Project Course
  • University of Bristol, School of Chemistry

Skills and Interests

• Quantum Information
  • Quantum correlations, quantum foundation
  • Qantum communication, quantum computation
  • Quantum sensing
• Experiemental Platforms
  • Photonic and electronic integrated circuits
  • Color center defects (photonics and spin)
  • Bulk optics and biphoton sources
  • IBM superconducting quantum processors
• Programming
  • Maching learning, data mining
  • Python, C, C++, Matlab, Mathematica…

Publications

Experimentally enhancing high-dimensional subchannel discrimination via optimal local filtering

Yen-An Shih, Wan-Guan Chang, Gelo Noel M. Tabia, Hao-Cheng Weng, Tsung-Ying Tsai, Chih-Sung Chuu, Huan-Yu Ku, and Costantino Budroni, Experimentally enhancing high-dimensional subchannel discrimination via optimal local filtering. Phys. Rev. Research 7, L032035 (2025).

Single photon emission from lithographically-positioned engineered nanodiamonds for cryogenic applications

Vivekanand Tiwari, Zhaojin Liu, Hao-Cheng Weng, Krishna C Balram, John G Rarity, Soumen Mandal, Oliver A Williams, Gavin W Morley, Joe A Smith, Single photon emission from lithographically-positioned engineered nanodiamonds for cryogenic applications, arXiv:2508.06424 (2025).

Observation of a full hierarchy of temporal quantum correlations with a superconducting qubit

Hao-Cheng Weng, Chen-Yeh Wei, Huan-Yu Ku, Shin-Liang Chen, Yueh-Nan Chen, and Chih-Sung Chuu, Observation of a full hierarchy of temporal quantum correlations with a superconducting qubit. Physical Review A 111.5 (2025): 052439.

Informational non-equilibrium concentration

Chung-Yun Hsieh, Benjamin Stratton, Hao-Cheng Weng, and Valerio Scarani, Informational non-equilibrium concentration. Physical Review A 111.5 (2025): 052423.

Implementation of Shor’s algorithm with a single photon in 32 dimensions

Hao-Cheng Weng and Chih-Sung Chuu. Implementation of Shor’s algorithm with a single photon in 32 dimensions. Physical Review Applied 22.3 (2024): 034003. Am score = 54 (till 2025/02)

Heterogeneous Integration of Solid-state Quantum Systems with Silicon Foundry Microelectronics

Hao-Cheng Weng, Sofiia Komrakova, Jonathan C. F. Matthews, John G. Rarity, Krishna C. Balram, and Joe A. Smith, Heterogeneous Integration of Solid-state Quantum Systems with Silicon Foundry Microelectronics. CLEO: Science and Innovations. Optica Publishing Group, 2024.

Crosstalk-mitigated microelectronic control for optically-active spins

Hao-Cheng Weng, John G. Rarity, Krishna C. Balram, and Joe A. Smith, Crosstalk-mitigated microelectronic control for optically-active spins. arXiv:2404.04075 (2024).

Heterogeneous Integration of Solid-State Quantum Systems with a Foundry Photonics Platform

Hao-Cheng Weng, Jorge Monroy-Ruz, Jonathan C. F. Matthews, John G. Rarity, Krishna C. Balram, and Joe A. Smith, Heterogeneous Integration of Solid-State Quantum Systems with a Foundry Photonics Platform. ACS photonics, 10(9), 3302-3309 (2023).

Nitrogen-vacancy centres integrated with foundry silicon nitride photonics

Hao-Cheng Weng, Jorge Monroy-Ruz, Jonathan CF Matthews, John G Rarity, Krishna C Balram, Joe A Smith, Nitrogen-vacancy centres integrated with foundry silicon nitride photonics. European Quantum Electronics Conference. Optica Publishing Group, 2023.

Hidden nonmacrorealism: Reviving the Leggett-Garg inequality with stochastic operations

Huan-Yu Ku, Hao-Cheng Weng, Yen-An Shih, Po-Chen Kuo, Neill Lambert, Franco Nori, Chih-Sung Chuu, and Yueh-Nan Chen, Hidden nonmacrorealism: Reviving the Leggett-Garg inequality with stochastic operations. Physical Review Research, 3(4), 043083 (2021).

Temporal Quantum Correlations in Superconducting-Qubit Systems

Hao-Cheng Weng, Chen-Yeh Wei, Huan-Yu Ku, Shin-Liang Chen, Yueh-Nan Chen, Chih-Sung Chuu, Temporal Quantum Correlations in Superconducting-Qubit Systems. Bulletin of the American Physical Society 66 (2021).

Experimental Observation of Hierarchy in Temporal Quantum Correlations

Hao-Cheng Weng, Chen-Yeh Wei, Huan-Yu Ku, Shin-Liang Chen, Yueh-Nan Chen, Chih-Sung Chuu, Experimental Observation of Hierarchy in Temporal Quantum Correlations. APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 2020.

Talks

Multi-NV quantum sensing with photonic integrated circuits

July 14, 2025

Poster Presentation at GRC Quantum Sensing- Diversity of Sensing Architectures for New Physics and Real-World Applications, Les Diablerets, Switzerland

Multi-NV quantum sensing with photonic integrated circuits

April 28, 2025

Poster Presentation at Bristol Quantum Information Technologies (BQIT) Workshop, Bristol, United Kingdom

Towards Large-Scale Integrated Platform for Solid-State Atoms

April 02, 2025

Oral presentation at Quantum Computing Scalability Conference 2025, Oxford, United Kingdom

Towards Large-Scale NV Quantum Applications

February 05, 2025

Talk at QIT (Quantum information theory) Seminar, University of Bristol, UK

Towards Large-Scale NV Quantum Applications

December 26, 2024

Talk at National Taiwan Normal University visiting scholar talk, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Towards large-scale NV quantum magnetometry

October 28, 2024

Poster Presentation at Workshop on Quantum Magnetometers QMAG 2024, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Crosstalk-Mitigated Microelectronic Control for Optically-Active Spins

June 10, 2024

Oral Presentation at Defects in solids for quantum technologies (DSQT) 2024 conference, Budapest, Hungary

Heterogeneous Integration of Solid-state Quantum Systems with Silicon Foundry Microelectronics

May 09, 2024

Oral Presentation at CLEO US 2024 conference, Charlotte, United States

Crosstalk-Mitigated Microelectronic Control for Optically-Active Spins

April 24, 2024

Poster Presentation at Bristol Quantum Information Technologies (BQIT) Workshop, Bristol, United Kingdom

NV centres for prototyping foundry quantum information processors

January 19, 2024

Poster Presentation at University of Bristol Physics Research Day, Bristol, United Kingdom

Heterogeneous integration of solid state quantum systems with a foundry photonics platform

November 20, 2023

Poster Presentation at Materials for Quantum Horizons Scanning UK Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Heterogeneous integration of solid state quantum systems with a foundry photonics platform

September 13, 2023

Oral and Poster Presentation at Quantum, Atomic and Molecular Physics (QuAMP) confernce, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Nitrogen-cavnacy centres integrated with foundry silicon nitride photonics

June 28, 2023

Oral presentation at CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 conference, Munich, Germany

Heterogeneous integration of solid-state quantum systems with a foundry photonics platform

April 24, 2023

Poster Presentation at Bristol Quantum Information Technologies (BQIT) Workshop, Bristol, United Kingdom

Integrating NV centres with foundry silicon nitride photonics

March 28, 2023

Talk at QET Labs Silicon Nitride Forum, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Patents

• Hao-Cheng Weng, Krishna C. Balram, and Joe A. Smith, Crosstalk-Mitigated Microelectronic Control for Optically-Active Spins, UK patent application No. GB 2404816.7.