2020/21 Cohort

• Sophie Engineer

  Photonic Resources for Quantum Metrology and Quantum Thermodynamics
  Sophie graduated from the University of Bristol in 2020 with an MSci in Mathematics. Her master’s project investigated the phenomena of Anderson Localisation in one-dimensional impurity models using computational methods alongside theoretical analysis. During her degree she was introduced to Quantum information theory and Quantum computing and quickly realised she wanted to pursue a career in the subject. Coming from a theoretical background, she cannot wait to explore the labs and expand her skillset. Her current research interests lie in simulations and algorithm design but she recognises that the diversity of knowledge she will learn in the first year of the CDT may well change that. Besides studying, she enjoys upcycling and creating her own clothes as well as other crafts, cycling and yoga.

• Carys Harvey

  Quantum Tensor Networks for Material Design and Probabilistic Modelling
  Carys graduated in MPhys from the University of Manchester. Her masters year research focussed on the modelling of open quantum systems using open quantum walks with application to quantum algorithms and networks. She interned at quantum software start-up Riverlane where she applied her knowledge to optimizing algorithms for the NISQ era. She is strongly interested in quantum information and in particular quantum computation but looking forward to exploring all that quantum engineering has to offer! Carys enjoys dabbling in music and art, long walks, and mixed martial arts.

• Daniel Marchant

  Non-conventional silicon nitride photonic devices for applications in quantum information
  Daniel graduated from University of Leeds in 2020 with an MPhys. Throughout his degree he specialised in condensed matter and quantum mechanics taking modules ranging from superconductivity through to quantum field theory. He is an experimentalist interested in the practical applications of quantum mechanics and during his time at the CDT hopes to gain skills in engineering to help realise these theories in the form of useful technologies. He also has experience in teaching and is looking forward to getting involved in outreach with the group.

• Jaya Sagar

  High performance Satellite Quantum Communication
  Jaya is a Zutshi-Smith Scholar. She has completed her B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology- Hamirpur, India. She has been a science enthusiast since her childhood and has worked on various innovative projects for solving the local problems and received various national/international awards for her innovative projects but her interest shifted to Quantum Technologies during her Bachelors. In the summer of her penultimate year of B.Tech she did her 8 weeks research internship from Johannes Kepler University-Linz, Austria to work on software development for faster manipulation of large quantum integrated circuits using wire recycling. Jaya is enthusiastic to learn about Quantum computing and bringing its applications to real life. She enjoys dancing, snow skiing, cooking and loves to travel.

• Mike Shubrook

  Heat and Work Counting Statistics with the Reaction Coordinate Mapping and TEMPO
  Mike graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2020 with an MPhys degree. His interest in quantum information began in third year when he took part in the ‘Quantum Information laboratory’ research project at Sheffield. In the summer during third and fourth year he did a 3-month summer placement at Luxinar Ltd in their state of the art solid-state clean room lab. His fourth-year research project (Quantum Navigation) was purely theoretical and tested how different types of entanglement effect the precision of phase measurements in an optical quantum gyroscope. His main interests are in Quantum computation and Quantum metrology.

• Taryn Stefanski

  Optimization of readout and gates for a superconducting fluxonium qubit
  Taryn received her BSc in Physics from Michigan State University in 2019 where she was a research assistant in the Laboratory for Hybrid Quantum Systems working with superconducting transmon qubits. She then went on to pursue an MSc here at the University of Bristol within the Quantum Dot Group. She wrote her thesis on charged semiconductor quantum dots embedded within micropillar cavity structures, with a focus on measuring the first order coherence to gain an understanding of dephasing by phonons and attempt to demonstrate coherent control of the electron spin. Her research interests lie primarily in quantum computing. In her spare time, she is part of the UoB surf society, enjoys crafting, rollerblading and travelling.

• Anthony Thompson

  Chaos and Scrambling in many-body quantum systems
  Anthony has recently graduated with an MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Oxford where he mainly focused on pure mathematics, his thesis was on the representation theory of quantum groups. Prior to that he studied Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol. Anthony is mainly interested in connections between pure mathematics and the theoretical aspects of quantum computing, such as algorithms and error-correcting codes. However, he is also keen to learn as much as he can about the more applied and practical side of quantum computing.

• Lewis Wooltorton

  Security of device-independent cryptography
  Lewis graduated from the University of Leeds with a BEng in Electronic Engineering. He has industrial work experience in telecommunications and joined the quantum communications research group in the School of EEE for his undergraduate project, where he investigated the novel use of semidefinite programming for the security proof of QKD protocols. During this project he contributed to ongoing research in Twin-Field QKD within the group, co-authoring the publication from the work. Lewis’ research interests lie in theoretical work within quantum communications, particularly in QKD, using both analytical and numerical techniques to solve various problems. Aside from science and engineering, his other interests are in music and various exercises, such as cycling, running, windsurfing and the gym.

• Zhulien Zhelezchev

  Quantum Programming Languages and Compilers
  Zhulien graduated from the University of Leeds in 2020 with a BSc in Computer Science. He did a placement year at Intel where he worked as an R&D engineer working on a new Intel spatial architecture as part of the 5G Architecture and Systems Engineering team within the Network Platforms Group. His main research interest is quantum programming languages.