Qixuan "Shawn" Cao

Tenure at OPUS Lab: Summer 2021 - Fall 2023 

As of Fall 2023, Shawn has joined UCLA as a graduate student. 

Shawn Cao is an undergraduate physics major at UC Santa Barbara. He joined the OPUS lab in Summer 2022. He is interested in hardware implementations of p-bits using electronic components and nanodevices. 

Publications at OPUS Lab:

[1] CMOS + stochastic nanomagnets: heterogeneous computers for probabilistic inference and learning, K. Kobayashi, N. Singh, Q. Cao, K. Selcuk, T. Hu, S. Niazi, N. A. Aadit, S. Kanai, H. Ohno, S. Fukami, K. Y. Camsari, Nature Communications (2024) 

[2] A. Grimaldi, K. Selcuk, N. A. Aadit, K. Kobayashi, Q. Cao, S. Chowdhury, G. Finocchio, S. Kanai, H. Ohno, S. Fukami, K. Y. Camsari, Experimental evaluation of simulated quantum annealing with MTJ-augmented p-bits, 2022 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) (2022)