Tommy McElvanney

School of Computer Science
Research Student

Contact details

Email: txm639@student.bham.ac.uk

Address: School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Tommy is a PhD student in the School of Computer Science, supervised by Dr Miriam Backens. Their research interests involve graphical calculi for quantum computing, specifically using the ZX-calculus for applications in measurement-based quantum computing.

Qualifications

Masters in Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics, University of Birmingham, First class.

Teaching

Mathematical and Logical Foundations for Computer Science
Theories of Computation

Doctoral research

PhD title: Preservation of Pauli flow in the ZX-calculus
Supervisors: Dr Miriam Backens and Professor Martin Escardo

Research

Graphical calculi for quantum computing
Measurement based quantum computing
Category theory

Publications

McElvanney, T. and Backens, M., 2022. Complete flow-preserving rewrite rules for MBQC patterns with Pauli measurements. arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.02009.