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Hi! I am Koenraad Audenaert.

I was born in Eeklo (Belgium) on July 1^st 1965.

I am married to Karen (my wife), and we have four children:

Leni (1994), Arnout (1996), Emmy (2000) and Ewout (2002).

 

Liam-E: ku.ca.luhr@treanedua.daarneok

 

(Living creatures beware: this is my email address spelled backwards!)

 

Note: A common misspelling of my name:  Konrad Adenauer

 

Bio:

 

·      “Burgerlijk Ingenieur” degree in Electrical Engineering, 1988, Universiteit Gent

·      Doctorate in Computer Science, 1995, Universiteit Gent

·      “Licentiaat” degree in Theoretical Physics, 1999, Universiteit Gent.

 

1990-1994: Research assistant, University of Ghent, Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS)

1995-1996: Software Engineer, Dekimo, Ghent (Since I left, they seem to be doing very well!)

1996-1998: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Ghent, ELIS group

1998-1999: R&D Engineer (part-time), Barco Graphics, Ghent (now: Esko Graphics)

1999-2001: Postdoctoral researcher, KU Leuven, Dept. of Electrical Engineering (ESAT)

2001-2002: Postdoctoral research fellow in the group of M.B. Plenio, Imperial College London, Quantum Optics and Laser Science

2002-2004: Lecturer at University of Wales, Bangor

2004-2006: Imperial College London, Quantum Optics and Laser Science

2006-2007: Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London

2007-Present: Lecturer, and then Reader at Maths Dept, Royal Holloway, University of London

 

Teaching:

 

2002-2004:

• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• Information and Coding in Communications
• Quantum Computation
• Image Processing and Computer Vision

 

2007-present:

• MT2800: Linear Algebra
• Year 2 group project (part of MT2800)
• MT3610: Error correcting codes
• MT4410: Channels (Introduction to information theory)

 

Research:

 

Quantum Information Theory, especially the mathematical study of entanglement measures,

channel capacities, measurements, state discrimination and more.

 

The main tools I like to employ are:

Matrix Analysis (eigenvalues, singular values, matrix inequalities)

Convex Analysis (convex functions, convex hulls, convex programming)

Statistics (I'm a so-called closet Bayesian)

 

Because I use Matrix Analysis so often, it has become a second strand of my research output,

where I focus, in particular, on matrix inequalities.

 

Why two strands?

Wouldn't it be much better to have a decent, single field career, rather than two "half-baked" ones?

Well, actually, my matrix analysis expertise has fed back into my QIT research and

allowed me, for instance, to solve a notorious open problem in quantum state discrimination: the quantum Chernoff bound.

Sometimes a problem in field A is so hard that just being knowledgeable in field B is not enough,

and you must be able to do research in field B.

If you want to build a really tall tower, you have to start from a broad base!

 

Output:

 

Some notes on these topics, including various presentations I have given, can be found here.

Here is a list of all my publications.

My physics publications can be found on-line at the ArXiv preprint server.

For my mathematics publications see the ArXiv preprint server as well.

Supplementary material for a recent paper on quantum tomographic reconstruction using Kalman Filtering can be found here.

 

[Page last updated: 17-11-2009]