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Academic and research journey

Academic progression through HKUST BSc → MPhil plus research assistantships across IBM Quantum, NV centers, and Rydberg simulators. Use the contact form or email to request the full CV; /cv.pdf is the canonical snapshot.

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Awards

Major challenge finishes and scholarships pulled directly from the latest CV PDF.

Sep 2025Connected DMV · Quantum World Congress

Global Industry Challenge – JPMorgan Chase (Winner)

Winner on the JPMorgan Chase track for the Johnson Graph Spectral Mixer QAOA design.

Sep 2025Connected DMV

Global Industry Challenge – Wells Fargo (2nd Place)

Second place with a constant-depth, ancilla-free circuit for measurement-driven evolution on the Wells Fargo track.

Sep 2025Connected DMV

Global Industry Challenge – World Bank (Finalist)

Finalist for a quantum-enhanced climate risk insurance model for Philippine cyclone scenarios.

Feb 2024HKUST

Dean's List, School of Science

Top 10% in Fall 2023–24 with TGA of at least 3.7 across 12+ credits.

Jan 2023MIT

iQuHack – IonQ Remote Challenge (3rd Place)

Quantum Image Classifier: Fashion-MNIST using quantum transfer learning tuned for IonQ hardware.

Apr 2021Yale/Stanford Quantum Coalition

QCHack - IBM Technical Challenge (2nd Place)

Ternary extrapolation of Grover's Algorithm for fast database search via Qiskit Pulse.

Sep 2018HKUST

Entrance Scholarship for Academic Excellence

USD18,000 full-tuition entrance scholarship recognizing academic excellence.

Career timeline

Positions & awards timeline

Every role, assistantship, and recognition captured in one flow from the CV PDF.

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Sep 2025

Global Industry Challenge – JPMorgan Chase (Winner)

In focus

Winner on the JPMorgan Chase track for the Johnson Graph Spectral Mixer QAOA design.

  • Winner on the JPMorgan Chase track for the Johnson Graph Spectral Mixer QAOA design.
Publications

Publications highlighted in the CV

Core thesis and conference outputs lifted from the PDF, with links to read or request more context.

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Thesis2025

MPhil Thesis, Department of Physics, HKUST

Credibility

Quantum-inspired Algorithm for the Collatz Conjecture

Thesis

Authors: Inho Choi

Thesis work that reframes Collatz trajectories with quantum-inspired operators and tensor-network structure to study search complexity.

collatztensor networkscircuit complexityquantum information
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Conference2022

NANO KOREA 2022 Symposium

Credibility

Robust state discrimination using a geometric gate

Conference spotlight

Authors: J. Kim; G. Kim; B. Kim; I. Choi; J. Kim; S. Shin; D. Kim

Talk on geometric-phase based state discrimination for superconducting qubits, highlighting robustness to crosstalk and drive instability.

superconducting qubitsgeometric gatesstate discriminationreadout
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Conference2020

APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting

Credibility

Efficient production of Bose-Einstein Condensates of 168Er

Conference spotlight

Authors: Z. Chen; B. Seo; M. Huang; W. Yuan; I. Choi; P. Chen; G.-B. Jo

Shared the evaporative cooling sequence and stability considerations for Bose-Einstein condensates of 168Er used in dipolar quantum simulation work.

amodipolar becultracold atomserbium
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