publications

Publications by categories in reversed chronological order. * denotes equal contribution or alphabetical ordering.

preprint

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    Methods for Reducing Ancilla-Overhead in Block Encodings
    Francisca Vasconcelos, and Andras Gilyen
    2025

                conference

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                  Learning shallow quantum circuits with many-qubit gates
                  Francisca Vasconcelos, and Hsin-Yuan Huang
                  In 38th Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2025
                  ⭐ Talk at QTML 2024 (Melbourne).
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                  On the Pauli Spectrum of QAC0
                  Shivam Nadimpalli*, Natalie Parham*, Francisca Vasconcelos*, and Henry Yuen*
                  In 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2024
                  ⭐ Talk at QIP 2024 (Taiwan)
                  I also presented at: Simons Quantum Pod, Berkeley CS Theory Lunch, CWI QuSoft Seminar.
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                          Extending Quantum State Tomography for Superconducting Quantum Processors
                          Francisca Vasconcelos, Morten Kjaergaard, Tim Menke, Simon Gustavsson, Terry P Orlando, and William D Oliver
                          In Microsystems Annual Research Conference, 2019
                          🎓 MIT Undergraduate EECS SuperUROP Thesis
                          🏆 MARC Conference Top-10 Presentation, Top Student Presentation
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                          Person-Following UAVs
                          Francisca Vasconcelos, and Nuno Vasconcelos
                          In IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2016
                          🏆 Intel ISEF 2015: “Robotics & Intelligent Machines” 4th Place Grand Award

                        journal

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                          A Quadratic Speedup in Finding Nash Equilibria of Quantum Zero-Sum Games
                          Francisca Vasconcelos*, Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis*, Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Giorgios Piliouras, and Michael I. Jordan
                          Quantum Journal, 2025
                          ⭐ Long talk at QTML 2023 (CERN).
                          I also presented at: Surfing the Ocean ERC Seminar.
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                            UncertaINR: Uncertainty Quantification of End-to-End Implicit Neural Representations for Computed Tomography
                            Francisca Vasconcelos*, Bobby He*, Nalini Singh, and Yee Whye Teh
                            Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2023
                            🎓 Oxford MSc in Statistical Sciences Thesis
                            Early version of work (Abstract) also presented at NeurIPS 2021 workshops:
                            Med-NeurIPS (Oral - 6.66% Acceptance Rate) & Bayesian Deep Learning (Poster)
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                                Impact of ionizing radiation on superconducting qubit coherence
                                Antti P Vepsäläinen, Amir H Karamlou, John L Orrell, Akshunna S Dogra, Ben Loer, Francisca Vasconcelos, and 7 more authors
                                Nature, 2020
                                ⭐ Featured in MIT News
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                                Generating spatially entangled itinerant photons with waveguide quantum electrodynamics
                                Bharath Kannan, Daniel L Campbell, Francisca Vasconcelos, Roni Winik, David K Kim, Morten Kjaergaard, and 7 more authors
                                Science Advances, 2020
                                ⭐ Featured in MIT News

                                  article

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                                        Why Quantum Education?
                                        Francisca Vasconcelos
                                        SPIE Photonics Focus, May 2023
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                                              Quantum Computing @ MIT: The Past, Present, and Future of the Second Revolution in Computing
                                              Francisca Vasconcelos
                                              MIT Undergraduate Research Journal, May 2019

                                              thesis

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                                                      Essays in the Philosophy of Physics, Science, Metaphysics, and Epistemology
                                                      Francisca Vasconcelos
                                                      University of Oxford, Jun 2022
                                                      Submitted in completion of an MSt in Philosophy of Physics.
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                                                      Uncertainty in Implicit Neural Representations for Medical Imaging
                                                      Francisca Vasconcelos
                                                      University of Oxford, Sep 2021
                                                      Submitted in completion of an MSc in Statistical Sciences.