I am Wenyang Qian, originally from Nanjing, China. I received my Ph.D. in 2020 under my advisor Professor James Vary at Iowa State University, and I have been a postdoc working with Professor Carlos Salgado at Instituto Galego de Fisica de Altas Enerxias (IGFAE) of the University of Santiago de Compostela since 2022. My doctoral research focuses on the understanding of hadronic structures using non-perturbative light-front Hamiltonian formalism, where I studied meson spectroscopy and various observables. With the development of quantum computing, I have been working on solving bound-state and time-dependent problems using quantum simulation techniques. Recently, in 2024, I was awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions postdoc fellowship on the project "Quantum simulation of Jet Evolution and Parton Structure (Q-JEPS)" by the European Research Council. This research grant allows me to focus on the application of the quantum simulation algorithm to study jet evolution in medium, an essential problem of interests in the heavy-ion collision community. Along with my collaborators, we presented the first extraction of jet quenching parameter on quantum circuit and study medium effects on momentum broadening, parton production, and entropy growth. Besides quantum jet simulation, I am also interested in understanding fundamental quantum field theories from fermionic systems to bosonic and to QED using novel quantum algorithms, and I fully believe quantum simulation provides an alternative and unique access to real-time dynamics and finite temperature observables.
