Draft:Hrvoje Kukina

Hrvoje Kukina (born 1991) is a Croatian computer scientist, applied mathematician, and quantum physicist. He is a PhD candidate in mathematics, and his work and research focus on the intersection between quantum computing and machine learning. He hosts the Quantum AI Podcast. , which he founded at the University of Oxford, and serves as the president and founder of the Cambridge University Quantum Association. His other interests include decoding the universe/theory of everything, consciousness, and the intersection between science and religion.

As a PhD candidate at TU Wien, Austria, Hrvoje's specializing in applied mathematics, particularly in quantum reinforcement learning. At TU Wien, his research primarily focuses on applying reinforcement learning to medicine (optimal treatment for sepsis patients).

As a PhD researcher at MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Hrvoje is working on quantum machine learning, the computational complexity of quantum chemistry algorithms, progress in quantum algorithms, and the application of quantum algorithms to unstructured search problems, particularly in analyzing specific DNA sequences within large genomes.

He is also a research collaborator and a former visiting PhD student at the University of Cambridge, UK (Faculty of Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Isaac Newton Institute ), where he worked on developing new hybrid quantum-classical model-free and model-based reinforcement learning algorithms and their computational complexity.

Additionally, he was a recognized PhD student at the University of Oxford, UK, where he worked on his PhD thesis. Hrvoje conducted research in the Engineering Science department and at Magdalen College, focusing on deep reinforcement learning for quantum device control

Hrvoje is an incoming visiting fellow at Harvard University, Department of Physics, where he will be working on quantum machine learning.