Curriculum Vitae

Technical Lead

Drive the Quantum Algorithm Engineering roadmap and provide technical guidance to the team delivering client demonstrations towards quantum advantage. Product owner of IBM Quantum Tutorials.

• Krylov Quantum Diagonalization - low-energy spectra of strongly correlated quantum systems paper tutorial
• Tensor-Network-enhanced MPF - compressed time-evolution of quantum systems paper code

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 docs

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

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