Redmond, Washington, United States
Experienced physicist and engineer with a long research track record in quantum computing and related topics.
Member of the Quantum Information Processing Group (formerly known as the Disruptive Information Processing Technologies Group) Principal investigator for 4 yr project involving academic and industrial partners.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) post-doctoral fellow (2008-2010) Theoretician in the Physics of Quantum Information group. Collaborated with groups in Canada and Switzerland, leading to publications in journals such as Nature, Nature Physics, and Physical Review Letters. Applied statistical methods, such as Markov Chain Monte-Carlo sampling, importance sampling, and bootstrapping in a quantum information processing setting in order to propose general experiment verification techniques with significant gain over previously known approaches. Developed techniques to subtract and reject noise from quantum signals in order to propose a method for observing quantum signatures in single microwave photon signals for the first time. Implemented numerical integration algorithms in C++ for stochastic differential equations in ~8000 dimensions.
Member of a small group responsible for the design of telecommunication protocols over 3G digital radio channels. Co-developed domain specific language for the efficient simulation of signal processing algorithms using C/C++, SWIG, and Ruby. Proposed improvements to error correction algorithms which reduced encoder complexity and increased robustness against noise. Collaborated closely with hardware and software development groups in order to verify functionality of production prototypes.