Jinzhao Wang.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Experience, education, service, and presentations.

Jinzhao Wang

Research Scientist · Zyphra

AI & large language models · Quantum information · Gravity

Experience

Mar 2026 – present

Member of Technical Staff

Zyphra Technology, San Francisco

Reinforcement Learning · Post Training Team

Sep 2022 – Dec 2025

Postdoctoral Fellow

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University

Quantum information theory

Education

2016 – 2022

PhD in Theoretical Physics

ETH Zürich

Supervisor: Renato Renner
Dissertation: On information-theoretic aspects of black holes

2015 – 2016

Master of Advanced Study in Applied Mathematics

University of Cambridge · Mathematics Tripos, Part III

2012 – 2015

BSc in Physics with Theoretical Physics

Imperial College London

Service

Organization

Organizer, Stanford Q-Farm Thermalization and Quantum Information Workshop.
Conference committee member, It from Qubit, Perimeter Institute (2023).

Reviewing

Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Quantum, Journal of High Energy Physics, Neural Networks, General Relativity and Gravitation, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Physica Scripta, Canadian Journal of Physics; QIP (2019, 2021), TQC (2024).

Talks &
presentations

2025

  1. High Energy Theory Seminar

    Nov

    Caltech · Invited talk

    Free mutual information and higher-point OTOCs

    Event

  2. Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity 2025

    Jun

    Perimeter Institute · Invited talk

    Towards an information theory of scrambling

    Recording

  3. Operator Algebras and Quantum Information

    Jun

    Waterloo · Contributed talk

    Free entropy and quantum minimum description length

    Event

  4. GeoFlow Meeting 2025

    May

    University of California, Berkeley · Invited talk

    Quantum Energy Teleportation versus Quantum Information Teleportation

    Event

  5. Mathematics Colloquium

    Apr

    University of Calgary · Invited talk

  6. EECS Colloquium

    Mar

    Syracuse University · Invited talk

  7. Physics Colloquium

    Feb

    University of Miami · Invited talk

2024

  1. Holographic Duality and Models of Quantum Computation

    Dec

    Bali · Invited talk

  2. High Energy Seminar

    Oct

    Purdue University · Invited talk

  3. Quantum Frontier

    Jul

    Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University · Invited talk

  4. Holography in Beijing 2024

    Jul

    Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, UCAS · Invited talk

  5. Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2024

    Jan

    Taipei, Taiwan · Contributed talk

    What exactly does Bekenstein bound?

    Recording

  6. High Energy Theory Seminar

    Jan

    Shing-Tung Yau Center, Southeast University · Invited talk

    Black hole information puzzle and quantum de Finetti theorem

    Event

2023

  1. Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF)

    Dec

    Sanya · Invited talk

  2. IAS Qubit Meeting 2023

    Dec

    Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton · Invited talk

    What Exactly Does Bekenstein Bound?

    Recording

  3. SITP Seminar

    Nov

    Stanford University · Talk

  4. Qubits and Spacetime Group Seminar

    Oct

    Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology · Invited talk

    What exactly does Bekenstein bound?

    Recording

  5. String Theory Seminar

    Oct

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Invited talk

  6. Quantum Information Seminar

    Oct

    Perimeter Institute · Invited talk

    What exactly does Bekenstein Bound?

    Recording

  7. Relativistic Quantum Information–North

    Jul

    Crete · Contributed talk

  8. Quantum Information Seminar

    Jul

    Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore · Invited talk

  9. Frontiers of Quantum Gravity

    Jun

    Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University · Invited talk

  10. Tensors Online Seminar

    May

    Lyon · Invited talk

  11. GeoFlow Meeting 2023

    Mar

    University of California, Berkeley · Invited talk

    On some information-theoretic questions in double-scaled SYK and JT gravity

    Recording

  12. DSSYK “Chord” Party

    Feb

    Stanford University · Invited talk

  13. Functional Analysis Seminar

    Jan

    Saarland University · Invited talk

  14. Abu Dhabi Meeting on Theoretical Physics

    Jan

    New York University Abu Dhabi · Invited talk

2022

  1. It from Qubit Seminar

    Oct

    Stanford University · Seminar

  2. Quantum Information and Quantum Computing Seminar

    Oct

    Stanford University · Seminar

  3. HEP / Quantum Information Seminar

    Sep

    University of California, Berkeley · Seminar

  4. Loops 2022

    Jul

    Lyon · Contributed talk

    Demystifying the replica trick calculation of the entropy of Hawking radiation

    Event Slides

  5. Global Structure in Semi-Classical Gravity

    Jul

    Munich · Contributed talk

  6. Reconstructing the Gravitational Hologram with Quantum Information

    Jul

    Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence · Invited talk

    Beyond islands: a free probabilistic approach

    Recording

  7. Causal Fermion Systems Seminar

    May

    University of Regensburg · Invited talk

  8. Quantum Information Seminar

    Apr

    ICFO, Barcelona · Invited talk

  9. Spacetime and Qubits Group Seminar

    Mar

    Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology · Invited talk

    The black hole information puzzle and the quantum de Finetti theorem

    Recording

  10. Quantum Information Seminar

    Mar

    Perimeter Institute · Invited talk

    Demystifying the replica trick calculation of the black hole radiation entropy

    Recording

2021

  1. Centre for Quantum Technologies Seminar

    Oct

    National University of Singapore · Invited talk

  2. Strings and Fields 2021

    Aug

    Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto · Oral presentation

    The refined quantum extremal surface prescription from the asymptotic equipartition property

    Event Slides

  3. International Congress on Mathematical Physics 2021

    Aug

    Geneva · Oral presentation

  4. Quantum Information Seminar

    Jul

    ETH Zürich · Oral presentation

  5. XXIV Urbino Summer School on Black Holes and the Information Loss Paradox

    Jun

    Urbino · Oral presentation

  6. Chinese Science Club Seminar

    Apr

    Invited oral presentation

  7. BritGrav 21

    Apr

    Oral presentation

  8. Causal Set Seminar

    Apr

    Invited talk

  9. Central European Relativity Seminar 11

    Feb

    Vienna · Oral presentation

  10. Entropy Inequalities, Quantum Information and Quantum Physics

    Feb

    Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics · Poster presentation

2020

  1. XIII Black Holes Workshop

    Dec

    Oral presentation

  2. 31st Meeting of the Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation

    Dec

    Oral presentation

  3. Atlantic General Relativity Seminar

    Nov

    Oral presentation

    Outer entropy equals Bartnik-Bray inner mass, and the gravitational ant conjecture

    Event

  4. Holotube Junior Seminar

    Oct

    Oral presentation

    Outer entropy equals Bartnik-Bray inner mass, and the gravitational ant conjecture

    Event Slides

  5. Quantum Information Seminar

    Oct

    ETH Zürich · Oral presentation

  6. Virtual Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity

    Sep

    Oral presentation

  7. 14th International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology

    Aug

    Oral presentation

  8. Virtual Causet Conference 2020

    Aug

    Oral presentation · Presented by Ludovico Machet

  9. String / HEP Seminar

    Jul

    University of California, Berkeley · Oral presentation

  10. Central European Relativity Seminar 10

    Feb

    Albert Einstein Institute, Golm · Oral presentation

2019

  1. Loops ’19

    Jun

    Pennsylvania State University, USA · Oral presentation

  2. It from Qubit School 2019

    Jun

    Kyoto, Japan · Poster presentation

  3. Quantum Information and String Theory (QIST) 2019

    Jun

    Kyoto, Japan · Poster presentation

2018

  1. Quantum Information Seminar

    Aug

    ETH Zürich · Oral presentation

  2. Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2018

    Jan

    Delft, the Netherlands · Poster presentation