Baek, Kyunghyun

Kyunghyun Baek studied physics at Sogang University, where he received his B.S. in 2012 and his Ph.D. in 2018 with a thesis on entropic uncertainty relations, unsharpness, and non-Gaussianity. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University at Qatar and the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, and later joined the Korea Institute for Advanced Study as a Research Fellow. From 2022 to 2024, he was a Senior Researcher at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. In 2024, he became Assistant Professor at Yonsei University, Institute for Convergence Research and Education in Advanced Technology, and Head of the Center for Quantum Computing Technology Support in Incheon. His research focuses on quantum information theory, quantum measurement, quantum resource theories, and near-term quantum algorithms, including variational quantum algorithms, quantum simulation, and quantum computing applications.

Contributions

• Maximal coherence of quantum measurement and the resource theory of sharpness
• Variational Quantum Eigensolver