I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, where I work on quantum computing.

Before that I did an undergraduate degree in Math and CS at the University of Toronto, where I was advised by Henry Yuen.

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## Research

I am broadly interested in the theory of quantum computing.

### On the complexity of zero gap MIP*

Hamoon Mousavi, Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi, Henry Yuen
International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming ICALP, 2020
Theory of Quantum Computation TQC, 2020
arxiv - slides

We characterize the complexity of exactly computing the maximum winning probability of entangled non-local games and show it to be strictly harder than the halting problem. In particular, we show that the class of zero-gap entangled multiprover interactive proofs, $$MIP_0^*$$, is equal to $$\Pi_2$$, a class within the second level of arithmetical hierarchy from computability theory.

### A generalization of CHSH and the algebraic structure of optimal strategies

David Cui, Arthur Mehta, Hamoon Mousavi, Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi
Quantum 4, 346, 2020
Quantum Information Processing QIP, 2020
arxiv

We introduce a family of games that generalize CHSH, viewing it as a linear constraint system game. These provide the first example of non-local games that self-test non-Pauli operators and states other than the maximally entangled state. We also introduce the Glued Magic Square game that is not a self-test for any strategy. Our results suggest a richer landscape of self-testing phenomena than previously considered.

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