Bob Coecke

Bob Coecke
Bob Coecke
	Bob Coecke
Born	23 July 1968
Alma mater	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (PhD);
	Scientific career
Fields	Quantum foundations; Category theory; Quantum information; Computational linguistics; Causality[1];
Institutions	University of Oxford; University of Cambridge; McGill University; Imperial College London;
Thesis	Hidden Measurement Systems (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Diederik Emiel Aerts; Jean Reignier[2];
Website	www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.coecke/

Bob Coecke (born 1968) is a Belgian theoretical physicist, professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures at Oxford University, and a pioneer of categorical quantum mechanics, ZX-calculus, DisCoCat natural language meaning and quantum natural language processing. He is also Senior Scientific Advisor for Cambridge Quantum Computing Ltd.

Education and career

Coecke obtained his Doctorate in Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1996,[2] and performed postdoctorate work in the Theoretical Physics Group of Imperial College, London and in the Category Theory Group of the Mathematics and Statistics Department at McGill University in Montreal, and was formally affiliated with the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics of Cambridge University.[3] He was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, where he became Lecturer in Quantum Computer Science in 2007, and jointly with Samson Abramsky leads the Quantum Group. In 2009, he worked as visiting scientist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.[3] In July 2011, he was nominated professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures at Oxford University, with retroactive effect as of October 2010. He is a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford since 2007.[3][4][5]

Coecke's research focuses on the foundations of physics, more particularly category theory and logic, and more recently, diagrammatic reasoning, with application to quantum informatics, quantum gravity, and NLP .[6] He has pioneered categorical quantum mechanics together with Samson Abramsky, and spearheaded the development of a diagrammatic quantum formalism based on Penrose graphical notation on which he wrote a textbook entitled Picturing Quantum Processes, with Aleks Kissinger. He also pioneered the categorical distributional natural language meaning, with Stephen Clark and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh.

He's a founding father of the Quantum Physics and Logic and the Applied Category Theory conference series, and of the diamond-open-access journal Compositionally.

The work of Coecke and his co-workers on the application of categorical quantum mechanics to natural language processing in computational linguistics was featured in New Scientist in December 2010.[7] The work on quantum natural language processing was featured in the Quantum Daily in December 2020 and in PhysicsWorld in January 2021.

Bob Coecke, Aleks Kissinger:Picturing Quantum Processes. A First Course in Quantum Theory and Diagrammatic Reasoning, Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1316219317

Bob Coecke (ed.): New Structures for Physics, Lecure Notes in Physics 813, Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3642128202
Bob Coecke, David Moore, Alexander Wilce (eds.): Current Research in Operational Quantum Logic: Algebras, Categories, Languages, Fundamental Theories of Physics, Kluwer Academic, 2010, ISBN 978-9048154371

Will Zeng, Bob Coecke: Quantum Algorithms for Compositional Natural Language Processing, arXiv:1608.01406
Bob Coecke, Tobias Fritz, Robert Spekkens: A mathematical theory of resources, arXiv:1409.5531
Bob Coecke, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Steven Clark: Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning, arXiv:1003.4394
Bob Coecke: Quantum Picturalism, arXiv:0908.1787
Bob Coecke, Ross Duncan: Interacting quantum observables, Automata, Languages and Programming, pp. 298–310, 2008
Bob Coecke: Kindergarten quantum mechanics, arXiv:quant-ph/0510032
Samson Abramsky, Bob Coecke: A categorical semantics of quantum protocols, Proceedings of the 19th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, 2004, pp. 415–425

Bob Coecke publications indexed by Google Scholar
Bob Coecke at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Bob Coecke, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford (downloaded 1 April 2012)
Faculty Computing Laboratory at the University of Oxford (downloaded 1 April 2012)
College Officers, Governing Body Fellows & Visiting Scholars, Wolfson College, University of Oxford (downloaded 1 April 2012)
Bob Coecke, LinkedIn (downloaded 1 April 2012)
Jacob Aron: Quantum links let computers understand language, New Scientist, 11 December 2010, p. 10–11 (abstract)

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