{"id":212,"date":"2025-04-08T12:33:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/?p=212"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:33:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:33:33","slug":"project-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/2025\/04\/08\/project-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Project pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vincent Zhao &#8211; 4\/8\/2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Imagine discovering life-saving drugs in days instead of years, encrypting data that&#8217;s unbreakable, or creating AI that learns at a rate faster than any model has before. Quantum computing could promise breakthroughs in these sectors and many more, but only if we can overcome the current challenges. Now, even the smallest errors can throw off a quantum calculation, preventing these systems from being applied in the real world<br><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092118342-1024x574.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-214 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092118342-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092118342-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092118342-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092118342.png 1043w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>My project focuses on making quantum error correction more adaptable. Today\u2019s methods use fixed settings that don\u2019t adjust to changing noise conditions. I\u2019m investigating whether tuning just one key recovery parameter in an entanglement-assisted error correction code can significantly boost the accuracy of quantum computations, even under noisy conditions. <br><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092526140-1024x568.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-216 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092526140-1024x568.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092526140-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092526140-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092526140.png 1043w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Even though this project could end up with no results, it still shows how even a normal individual with no experience can try and improve a field. <\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092640768-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-217 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092640768-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092640768-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092640768-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-08_092640768.png 1046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Zhao &#8211; 4\/8\/2025 Imagine discovering life-saving drugs in days instead of years, encrypting data that&#8217;s unbreakable, or creating AI that learns at a rate faster than any model has before. Quantum computing could promise breakthroughs in these sectors and many more, but only if we can overcome the current challenges. Now, even the smallest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stgeorges.bc.ca\/vincentz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}