I currently work (2016-present) as an experimental quantum information scientist in the Quantum Systems Group at GTRI. I spend much of my time characterizing single and two qubit gate noise, as well as thinking about uses for robust phase estimation and other fast calibration protocols in the quantum information and sensors fields.
I spend a good bit of my free time while I am not running or working on my house doing small electronics projects such as building an automated greenhouse with a Raspberry Pi in the side of my desk, building a 430 nm beer spectrometer with an ESP8266 NodeMCU to measure the SRM number (how dark a beer is) of Burkhardt and Riggs Homebrews, and most recently, making a musical Christmas light display with a Raspberry Pi and the LightShowPi package. Most of these projects as well as some others are cataloged on my Github.
I previously worked (2014-2016) as a graduate researcher in the Raizen Lab at UT Austin studying entertainment efficiency of alkali atoms in supersonic beams. This work aims to increase cold atom flux to a million times larger than is possible using laser cooling, allowing ideas such as industrially feasible atom lasers and direct measurement of the three body association rate of hydrogen to become realities.
Prior to my research in Austin, I worked as an undergraduate researcher in the Brown Lab (2012-2014) at Georgia Tech as well as the Quantum Systems Group (2012-2014) at GTRI. In the Brown Lab I worked on physical chemistry research such as the non-destructive mass spectroscopy of molecular ions while at GTRI I studied the spectroscopy of a calcium ion in a standing wave and its applications to noise reduction in single qubit gates.
I spend a good bit of my free time while I am not running or working on my house doing small electronics projects such as building an automated greenhouse with a Raspberry Pi in the side of my desk, building a 430 nm beer spectrometer with an ESP8266 NodeMCU to measure the SRM number (how dark a beer is) of Burkhardt and Riggs Homebrews, and most recently, making a musical Christmas light display with a Raspberry Pi and the LightShowPi package. Most of these projects as well as some others are cataloged on my Github.
I previously worked (2014-2016) as a graduate researcher in the Raizen Lab at UT Austin studying entertainment efficiency of alkali atoms in supersonic beams. This work aims to increase cold atom flux to a million times larger than is possible using laser cooling, allowing ideas such as industrially feasible atom lasers and direct measurement of the three body association rate of hydrogen to become realities.
Prior to my research in Austin, I worked as an undergraduate researcher in the Brown Lab (2012-2014) at Georgia Tech as well as the Quantum Systems Group (2012-2014) at GTRI. In the Brown Lab I worked on physical chemistry research such as the non-destructive mass spectroscopy of molecular ions while at GTRI I studied the spectroscopy of a calcium ion in a standing wave and its applications to noise reduction in single qubit gates.
