• Ph.D. (2005) Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• M.S. (1999) Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• B.S. (1997) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
• Employment:
  • 2009-present: Feynman Fellow, LANL
  • 2007-2009: Postdoc, LANL
  • 2005-2007: Postdoc, Caltech
  • 2005-2005: Postdoc, McGill University
  • 1999-2005: Research Assistant, Stanford University

Research Interests:

• Quantum information theory
• Quantum computation and algorithms
• Topological quantum computation

Selected Recent Publications:

1. F. Brandão, M. Christandl, J. Yard, Faithful squashed entanglement, arXiv:1010:1750
2. J. Yard, I. Devetak, Optimal quantum source coding with quantum side information at the encoder and decoder, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,  55 (2009).
3. G. Smith, J. Yard, Quantum communication with zero-capacity channels, Science,  321 (2008).
4. I. Devetak, J. Yard, Exact cost of redistributing quantum states, Phys. Rev. Lett.  100 (2008).
5. P. Hayden, M. Horodecki, A. Winter, J. Yard, A decoupling approach to the quantum capacity, Open systems and information dynamics,  15 (2008).
6. P. Wocjan, J. Yard, The Jones polynomial: quantum algorithms and applications in quantum complexity theory, Quantum Information and Computation,  8 (2008)