Matthew Fox

I am a physics PhD student at CU Boulder and, for the Spring 2025 semester, an adjunct faculty member at the Colorado School of Mines in the computer science department. Before this, I was a physics PhD student at UC Santa Barbara, a PSI master's student at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a math and physics major at Harvey Mudd College.

My research explores the fundamental physical limitations of efficient computation. I am particularly interested in understanding what it is about quantum mechanics that enables a computational advantage. At the same time, I think seriously about a jumble of things in AI, metaphysics, and number theory. In Dyson's classification, I am more bird than frog.