Andreas Burger

I am a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Toronto, supervised by Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik and Prof. Nandita Vijaykumar.

I am studying how to simulate the physics of tiny scales. Currently with Machine Learning, previously with Quantum Computing and Tensor Networks.


Publications

DEQ architecture

DEQuify your force field: Towards efficient simulations using deep equilibrium models

ICLR 2025 (under review)
Andreas Burger, Luca Thiede, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Nandita Vijaykumar,

We speed up molcular dynamics simulations by focusing the temporal structure of the problem. We reuse intermediate latents from the previous prediction step, by turning a state of the art architecture into a deep equilibrium model. Our method is faster, more accurate, and uses fewer parameters than the original model.

Spin Boson Model

Digital Quantum Simulation of the Spin-Boson Model under Markovian Open-System Dynamics

Entropy 2022, Special Issue Advances in Quantum Computing
Andreas Burger, Leong Chuan Kwek, Dario Poletti,

We study how simulate noisy quantum systems on near-term quantum computers. We combine trotterization for the hamiltonian part with "collisions" on ancilla qubits for the open dynamics.


Education

PhD, Computer Science

University of Toronto

Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Prof. Nandita Vijaykumar

2023 - 2027

Master's thesis

National University of Singapore

Digital Quantum Simulation of the Spin-Boson Model under Markovian Open-System Dynamics

2022 - 2022

Master's Degree in Physics

University of Munich (LMU)

2020 - 2022

Bachelor's Degree in Physics

Vienna University of Technology

2017 - 2020

High School

Sir-Karl Popper Schule

2012 - 2016

Experience

Quantum Algorithm Engineer

IQM Quantum Computers

2023/05 - 2023/08

Product Owner

applied by zeb

2023/02 - 2023/04

Consultant

EFS Consulting

2021/10 - 2021/12

Research Intern

Iran University of Science and Technology

2021/08 - 2021/09

Civil Service

Red Cross

2017/01 - 2017/09

Construction Worker

Fruit Security

2014/07 - 2014/07