Dr. Matthew Sutcliffe
Postdoctoral Researcher
Informatics Institute,
University of Amsterdam,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
I am a postdoctoral researcher based at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. My research primarily focuses on classical simulation and optimisation of quantum circuits using the ZX-Calculus. Outside of research, I am also a hobbyist game developer.
Publications
Matthew Sutcliffe and Ravindra Mutyamsetty,
Arxiv Preprint, 2026
Matthew Sutcliffe,
DPhil Thesis, University of Oxford, 2025
Wira Azmoon Ahmad and Matthew Sutcliffe,
International Journal of Modern Physics C, 2025
Alexander Koziell-Pipe, Richie Yeung, and Matthew Sutcliffe,
MATH-AI Workshop, NeurIPS 2024
Makkunda Sharma, Fan Yang, Duy-Nhat Vo, Jack Gidney, Matthew Sutcliffe, Mengyan Zhang, Esra Suel, H Juliette T Unwin, Swapnil Mishra, Samir Bhatt, Oliver Fiala, William Rudgard, and Seth Flaxman,
Preprint 2024
Matthew Sutcliffe,
Arxiv Preprint 2024
Matthew Sutcliffe and Aleks Kissinger,
QPL Proceedings 2024
Matthew Sutcliffe and Aleks Kissinger,
QPL Proceedings 2025
Presentations
ZX Seminar,
Online, April, 2025
ZX Seminar,
Online, January, 2025
ZX Seminar,
Online, September, 2024
ZX Seminar,
Online, May 2024
Syco11 Conference,
Palaiseau, France, April 2023
Supervised
Students
Lara Boloni
'Improved Simulation Using the Gate-by-Gate Approach: A Usecase in Magic State Cultivation'
MSc Thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2026 (ongoing)
David Philipps
'GNNs for Fast Classical Simulation of Quantum Circuits Through Optimizing ZX-Graph Decompositions'
MSc Thesis, University of Oxford, 2025
Wira Ahmad
'Efficient Heuristics for Classical Simulation of Quantum Circuits Using ZX-Calculus'
MSc Thesis, University of Oxford, 2025
