Prof. Alistair Vance, IEEE Fellow

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Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University • United States

ORCID: 0000-0002-1825-0097 Institutional Website

IEEE Fellow and Chair of Computing Systems. Over 25 years of research in distributed computing and quantum information theory.

Research Focus: Quantum Computing Distributed Systems Fault-Tolerant Architectures

Published Research Papers (2)

Peer-Reviewed IEEE Archive

Quantum Computing & Information Theory IEEE-RH-2026-0001

Scalable Error-Mitigated Quantum Telemetry for Superconducting Multi-Qubit Processors

Superconducting quantum circuits face severe fidelity degradation due to thermal quasiparticles and decoherence during multi-qubit readout cycles. In this paper, we introduce an adaptive error-mitigation protocol that performs real-time continuous calibration using non-destructive dispersive telemetry. Benchmarked across a 127-qubit planar lattice, our approach suppresses state-preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors by 41.6% without incurring physical qubit overhead. Experimental verification on benchmark algorithms demonstrates two orders of magnitude improvement in circuit depth capacity.

Published: Aug 2026 View Paper & Citation →

Cybersecurity, Privacy & Cryptography IEEE-RH-2026-0002

Zero-Knowledge Cryptographic Attestation for Autonomous Edge Swarms Under Byzantine Faults

Autonomous decentralized swarm robotics operating in hostile tactical environments require trustless state consensus without exposing internal sensory data or communication topology. We construct a succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge (zk-SNARK) verification circuit optimized for low-power ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers. The proposed protocol achieves cryptographic identity attestation and kinematic path consensus in under 18ms per peer hop while tolerating up to 33% malicious Byzantine nodes.

Published: Jul 2026 View Paper & Citation →