Ebrahim Ardeshir-Larijani has passed his PhD viva and his thesis has been approved, subject to minor corrections. His thesis is titled "Automated Equivalence Checking of Quantum Information Systems". Quantum information processing is an emerging technology and verification of quantum protocols is important for the design and development of quantum communication and cryptographic systems. Ebrahim's thesis presents languages (sequential and concurrent) for describing quantum systems and techniques for checking equivalence. The work has resulted in two joint papers (with Simon Gay and Rajagopal Nagarajan) in good conferences, TACAS 2013 and TACAS 2014.

Ebrahim was supervised by Dr. Ranko Lazic and Prof. Rajagopal Nagarajan, the external examiner was Dr. Ross Duncan (Strathclyde) and his internal examiner was Dr. Jane Sinclair.