
Bob Coecke is Chief Scientist at Cambridge Quantum and Quantinuum, where he also heads the Oxford-based Quantum Natural Language Processing team, and Emeritus Professor at Wolfson College, Oxford University. Previously, he was Professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures at the Department of Computer Science at Oxford University, where he was for 20 years, and co-founded, built, and led a multi-disciplinary research group of up to 50 people. Professor Coecke supervised 66 PhD students.
Professor Coecke pioneered Categorical Quantum Mechanics (now in AMS’s MSC2020 classification), ZX-calculus, DisCoCat natural language meaning, mathematical foundations for resource theories, Quantum Natural Language Processing, and is co-author of Picturing Quantum Processes, a book providing a fully diagrammatic treatment of quantum theory and its applications. Professor Coecke co-authored close to 200 research papers. He is a founding father of the QPL (Quantum Physics and Logic) and ACT (Applied Category Theory) communities, and of the diamond-open-access journal Compositionality. He was the first person to have Quantum Foundations as part of his professorial title. His work is headlined in various media outlets including Forbes, New Scientist, PhysicsWorld, ComputerWeekly.