Curriculum Vitae

Calibration and Control Lead

Lead calibration and control work for thermodynamic computing hardware. Develop hardware-aware methods that connect probabilistic devices, stochastic algorithms, and compilation.

• Thermalizers - compilation of parametrized stochastic circuits to hardware-native energy-based models paper
• Torx - a JAX framework for constructing, executing, and differentiating parametrized stochastic circuits paper docs

Technical Lead

Drove the Quantum Algorithm Engineering roadmap and provided technical guidance for large-scale demonstrations on quantum hardware. Product owner of IBM Quantum Tutorials.

• Quantum Enhanced Pauli Propagation - quantum-assisted classical simulation of noisy circuits paper
• ffsim - fast classical simulation of fermionic quantum circuits paper
• Projected Quantum Kernels - quantum-kernel classification of CAR T-cell cytotoxicity paper tutorial
• Sample-based Krylov Quantum Diagonalization - diagonalizing lattice Hamiltonians with quantum samples paper tutorial
• Krylov Quantum Diagonalization - low-energy spectra of strongly correlated quantum systems paper tutorial
• Tensor-Network-enhanced MPF - compressed time-evolution of quantum systems paper tutorial

Research Scientist

Develop, implement and benchmark novel error-suppression and mitigation techniques for large-scale demonstrations of quantum algorithms.

• Context-Aware Compiling - error suppression at the compiler level paper API
• Probabilistic Error Cancellation and Amplification package - efficient software implementation docs
• Sparse noise-tomography qubit mapper - hardware-aware qubit selection patent
• Measuring central charge - algorithm demonstration paper
• Defining best practices for quantum benchmarks - effects of error mitigation on benchmarking paper

Senior Quantum Control Engineer

Design, simulate and implement machine-learning-based pulse calibration techniques to increase performance of qubit controls (higher fidelity, lower duration).

• Deep-RL pulse optimisation for gate-set design paper tutorial

Ph.D. Physics

Investigated non-stationary cavity QED phenomena, focusing on entanglement generation via the dynamical Lamb effect. Explored algorithm demonstrations on early quantum processors.

• Dynamical Lamb Effect entanglement generation thesis
• Quantum thermodynamics on a quantum processor paper
• Quantum algorithm for simulating a multipath interferometer paper
• Small-scale demonstration of Shor's algorithm paper tutorial

M.Sc. Physics

Specialised in high-energy physics and quantum field theory.

• Equations of motion of supergravity theories thesis

B.Sc. Engineering Physics

Focus on applied physics with emphasis on laser physics and quantum optics.

• Pump-probe spectroscopy for materials characterization thesis