About

I am a first-year PhD student at Tufts University, advised by Professor Saeed Mehraban and Professor Vladimir Podolskii. My research is in computational complexity theory with a focus on quantum complexity. Lately I have been thinking about weak (near-term) models of quantum computation, specifically low-depth circuits and noisy circuits. I am also interested in Hamiltonian complexity. I previously received a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science and an MS in Computer Science from Tufts University.

Publications

• D. Jacobs, J. Jeang, V. Podolskii, M. Prior, I. Volkovich, “Communication Complexity of Equality and Error Correcting Codes”, [In submission, ECCC]
• D. Jacobs, S. Mehraban, “The Space Just Above One Clean Qubit”, [To be presented at TQC 2025, arXiv]