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3 | | -title: "Academic Pages is a ready-to-fork GitHub Pages template for academic personal websites" |
| 3 | +title: "Turning Quantum Weirdness into Everyday Superpowers" |
4 | 4 | author_profile: true |
5 | 5 | redirect_from: |
6 | 6 | - /about/ |
7 | 7 | - /about.html |
8 | 8 | --- |
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10 | | -This is the front page of a website that is powered by the [Academic Pages template](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io) and hosted on GitHub pages. [GitHub pages](https://pages.github.com) is a free service in which websites are built and hosted from code and data stored in a GitHub repository, automatically updating when a new commit is made to the repository. This template was forked from the [Minimal Mistakes Jekyll Theme](https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/) created by Michael Rose, and then extended to support the kinds of content that academics have: publications, talks, teaching, a portfolio, blog posts, and a dynamically-generated CV. Incidentally, these same features make it a great template for anyone that needs to show off a professional template! |
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12 | | - You can fork [this template](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io) right now, modify the configuration and Markdown files, add your own PDFs and other content, and have your own site for free, with no ads! |
| 11 | +*If the universe insists on being strange, let’s at least make it useful.” — me, after my third espresso and fifth qubit reset.* |
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14 | | -A data-driven personal website |
15 | | -====== |
16 | | -Like many other Jekyll-based GitHub Pages templates, Academic Pages makes you separate the website's content from its form. The content & metadata of your website are in structured Markdown files, while various other files constitute the theme, specifying how to transform that content & metadata into HTML pages. You keep these various Markdown (.md), YAML (.yml), HTML, and CSS files in a public GitHub repository. Each time you commit and push an update to the repository, the [GitHub pages](https://pages.github.com/) service creates static HTML pages based on these files, which are hosted on GitHub's servers free of charge. |
| 13 | +<img class="rounded-image" src="https://github.com/quantagate/quantagate.github.io/blob/master/images/quatagates.jpg" alt="" style="width: 200px; height: 200px; border-radius: 50%; object-fit: cover;" align="right"> |
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18 | | -Many of the features of dynamic content management systems (like Wordpress) can be achieved in this fashion, using a fraction of the computational resources and with far less vulnerability to hacking and DDoSing. You can also modify the theme to your heart's content without touching the content of your site. If you get to a point where you've broken something in Jekyll/HTML/CSS beyond repair, your Markdown files describing your talks, publications, etc. are safe. You can rollback the changes or even delete the repository and start over - just be sure to save the Markdown files! You can also write scripts that process the structured data on the site, such as [this one](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/blob/master/talkmap.ipynb) that analyzes metadata in pages about talks to display [a map of every location you've given a talk](https://academicpages.github.io/talkmap.html). |
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20 | | -For those users that need more advanced functionality, the template also supports the following popular tools: |
21 | | -- [MathJax](https://www.mathjax.org/) for mathematical equations |
22 | | -- [Mermaid](https://mermaid.js.org/) for diagraming |
23 | | -- [Plotly](https://plotly.com/javascript/) for plotting |
| 16 | +## About Me |
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25 | | -Getting started |
26 | | -====== |
27 | | -1. Register a GitHub account if you don't have one and confirm your e-mail (required!) |
28 | | -1. Fork [this template](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io) by clicking the "Use this template" button in the top right. |
29 | | -1. Go to the repository's settings (rightmost item in the tabs that start with "Code", should be below "Unwatch"). Rename the repository "[your GitHub username].github.io", which will also be your website's URL. |
30 | | -1. Set site-wide configuration and create content & metadata (see below -- also see [this set of diffs](http://archive.is/3TPas) showing what files were changed to set up [an example site](https://getorg-testacct.github.io) for a user with the username "getorg-testacct") |
31 | | -1. Upload any files (like PDFs, .zip files, etc.) to the files/ directory. They will appear at https://[your GitHub username].github.io/files/example.pdf. |
32 | | -1. Check status by going to the repository settings, in the "GitHub pages" section |
| 18 | +The world of quantum mechanics is often depicted as a bizarre and counterintuitive place. Particles existing in multiple states simultaneously ($|\psi\rangle = \alpha|0\rangle + \beta|1\rangle$), spooky action at a distance – it all sounds like science fiction. But here’s the thing: quantum mechanics isn’t some fringe theory. It’s the undeniably successful framework that underpins the behavior of the universe at its most fundamental level. |
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34 | | -Site-wide configuration |
35 | | ------- |
36 | | -The main configuration file for the site is in the base directory in [_config.yml](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/blob/master/_config.yml), which defines the content in the sidebars and other site-wide features. You will need to replace the default variables with ones about yourself and your site's github repository. The configuration file for the top menu is in [_data/navigation.yml](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/blob/master/_data/navigation.yml). For example, if you don't have a portfolio or blog posts, you can remove those items from that navigation.yml file to remove them from the header. |
| 20 | +My passion lies in demystifying this "weirdness" and translating it into powerful, real-world applications. I believe that by embracing concepts like **superposition**, **wave-particle duality**, and **entanglement**, we can unlock a new era of technological innovation. My work focuses on the intersection of quantum computing and artificial intelligence, exploring how quantum algorithms can solve problems currently intractable for even the most powerful classical supercomputers. |
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38 | | -Create content & metadata |
39 | | ------- |
40 | | -For site content, there is one Markdown file for each type of content, which are stored in directories like _publications, _talks, _posts, _teaching, or _pages. For example, each talk is a Markdown file in the [_talks directory](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/tree/master/_talks). At the top of each Markdown file is structured data in YAML about the talk, which the theme will parse to do lots of cool stuff. The same structured data about a talk is used to generate the list of talks on the [Talks page](https://academicpages.github.io/talks), each [individual page](https://academicpages.github.io/talks/2012-03-01-talk-1) for specific talks, the talks section for the [CV page](https://academicpages.github.io/cv), and the [map of places you've given a talk](https://academicpages.github.io/talkmap.html) (if you run this [python file](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/blob/master/talkmap.py) or [Jupyter notebook](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/blob/master/talkmap.ipynb), which creates the HTML for the map based on the contents of the _talks directory). |
| 22 | +This profile is a window into my journey. Here you'll find projects ranging from quantum machine learning models to simulations of novel quantum materials. Join me as we explore the strangeness that shapes our universe and turn it into a superpower. |
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42 | | -**Markdown generator** |
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44 | | -The repository includes [a set of Jupyter notebooks](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/tree/master/markdown_generator |
45 | | -) that converts a CSV containing structured data about talks or presentations into individual Markdown files that will be properly formatted for the Academic Pages template. The sample CSVs in that directory are the ones I used to create my own personal website at stuartgeiger.com. My usual workflow is that I keep a spreadsheet of my publications and talks, then run the code in these notebooks to generate the Markdown files, then commit and push them to the GitHub repository. |
| 25 | +## Skills |
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47 | | -How to edit your site's GitHub repository |
48 | | ------- |
49 | | -Many people use a git client to create files on their local computer and then push them to GitHub's servers. If you are not familiar with git, you can directly edit these configuration and Markdown files directly in the github.com interface. Navigate to a file (like [this one](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/blob/master/_talks/2012-03-01-talk-1.md) and click the pencil icon in the top right of the content preview (to the right of the "Raw | Blame | History" buttons). You can delete a file by clicking the trashcan icon to the right of the pencil icon. You can also create new files or upload files by navigating to a directory and clicking the "Create new file" or "Upload files" buttons. |
| 27 | +* **Quantum Computing:** Quantum Algorithms (Shor's, Grover's), Quantum Machine Learning, Quantum Error Correction, Quantum Information Theory, Entanglement & Superposition Principles. |
| 28 | +* **AI & Machine Learning:** Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision. |
| 29 | +* **Programming & Software:** Python, C++, Qiskit, PennyLane, Cirq, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn. |
| 30 | +* **Mathematics:** Linear Algebra, Probability & Statistics, Complex Analysis, Differential Equations. |
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51 | | -Example: editing a Markdown file for a talk |
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54 | | -For more info |
55 | | ------- |
56 | | -More info about configuring Academic Pages can be found in [the guide](https://academicpages.github.io/markdown/), the [growing wiki](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/wiki), and you can always [ask a question on GitHub](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/discussions). The [guides for the Minimal Mistakes theme](https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/configuration/) (which this theme was forked from) might also be helpful. |
| 33 | +> "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." - *Richard Feynman* |
| 34 | +
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| 35 | +> "The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." - *J.B.S. Haldane* |
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| 37 | + |
| 38 | +## Let's Connect |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +* **LinkedIn:** [linkedin.com/in/quantagates](https://www.linkedin.com/in/quantagates) |
| 41 | +* **Twitter:** [@quantumgate369](https://twitter.com/quantumgate369) |
| 42 | +* **GitHub:** [github.com/quantagate](https://github.com/quantagate) |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +## Tech Stack |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +| Category | Technologies | |
| 48 | +| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 49 | +| **Quantum Frameworks**| `Qiskit` `PennyLane` `Cirq` `D-Wave Ocean` `Microsoft QDK` | |
| 50 | +| **AI/ML Libraries** | `TensorFlow` `PyTorch` `Keras` `Scikit-learn` `Hugging Face Transformers` `NLTK` | |
| 51 | +| **Programming Languages**| `Python` `C++` `MATLAB` | |
| 52 | +| **Cloud & Platforms** | `IBM Quantum` `AWS Braket` `Google Cloud` `Azure Quantum` `Docker` | |
| 53 | +| **Databases** | `SQL` `MongoDB` | |
| 54 | +| **Tools** | `Git` `Jupyter` `Linux` `LaTeX` | |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +## Education |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +* **Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)** |
| 60 | + * Ph.D. in Quantum Information Science |
| 61 | + * *September 2019 - May 2024* |
| 62 | + * Thesis: *Developing Noise-Resilient Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms for Near-Term Devices.* |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +* **University of Oxford** |
| 65 | + * M.Sc. in Physics and Theoretical Physics |
| 66 | + * *October 2017 - September 2018* |
| 67 | + * Focus on Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter Physics. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +* **Stanford University** |
| 70 | + * B.S. in Computer Science |
| 71 | + * *September 2013 - June 2017* |
| 72 | + * Specialization in Artificial Intelligence. |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +## Work Experience |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +**Quantum Research Scientist | IBM Quantum** |
| 78 | +*(June 2024 - Present)* |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | +* Developing and implementing novel quantum machine learning algorithms on IBM's fleet of superconducting quantum processors. |
| 81 | +* Collaborating with industry partners to identify and solve high-impact business problems in finance, materials science, and healthcare using quantum computers. |
| 82 | +* Contributing to the open-source Qiskit framework, with a focus on the `qiskit-machine-learning` module. |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | +## Certificates & Degrees |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +1. **IBM Certified Associate Developer - Quantum Computation using Qiskit v0.2X** - *IBM* |
| 88 | +2. **Professional Certificate in Quantum Computing** - *MIT xPRO* |
| 89 | +3. **Quantum Machine Learning** - *University of Toronto on Coursera* |
| 90 | +4. **The Quantum Internet and Quantum Computers: How Will They Change the World?** - *DelftX (TU Delft) on edX* |
| 91 | +5. **Introduction to Quantum Computing** - *Qiskit Global Summer School 2023* |
| 92 | +6. **Quantum Computing for Everyone** - *University of Chicago on Coursera* |
| 93 | +7. **The Physics of Silicon - Quantum Computing 2** - *Purdue University on edX* |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +## Projects |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +1. **Quantum Variational Classifier for Drug Discovery** |
| 99 | + * Developed a hybrid quantum-classical model using a Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) to predict molecular binding affinities. Implemented in `Qiskit` and `PyTorch`. |
| 100 | + * *Keywords: VQE, QML, Drug Discovery, Chemoinformatics.* |
| 101 | + |
| 102 | +2. **Noise-Resistant Entanglement Distribution Protocol** |
| 103 | + * Simulated a novel entanglement swapping protocol incorporating error-mitigation techniques. Showcased improved fidelity on noisy simulated quantum hardware. |
| 104 | + * *Keywords: Quantum Networking, Entanglement, Error Mitigation, Qiskit Aer.* |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | +3. **Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) Model** |
| 107 | + * An exploratory project implementing a sentence-meaning model on a quantum circuit, based on the DisCoCat framework, to classify text sentiment. |
| 108 | + * *Keywords: QNLP, DisCoCat, PennyLane, Natural Language Processing.* |
| 109 | + |
| 110 | +4. **Financial Portfolio Optimization using Quantum Annealing** |
| 111 | + * Formulated a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problem for portfolio optimization and solved it using D-Wave's quantum annealer. |
| 112 | + * *Keywords: Quantum Annealing, QUBO, Finance, D-Wave Ocean.* |
| 113 | + |
| 114 | +5. **Educational Quantum Circuit Simulator in Python** |
| 115 | + * Built a lightweight quantum circuit simulator from scratch using `NumPy` to teach the fundamental principles of quantum gates, superposition, and entanglement. |
| 116 | + * *Keywords: Education, Simulator, Quantum Gates, NumPy.* |
| 117 | + |
| 118 | + |
| 119 | +## Courses |
| 120 | + |
| 121 | +1. **MIT 8.05x: Quantum Mechanics: A First Course** - *edX* |
| 122 | +2. **Stanford CS269Q: Quantum Computer Programming** - *Stanford University* |
| 123 | +3. **Caltech Ph/CS 219: Quantum Computation** - *California Institute of Technology* |
| 124 | +4. **Qiskit Global Summer School: Quantum Simulations** - *IBM Quantum* |
| 125 | +5. **Introduction to Modern Physics** - *University of Rochester on Coursera* |
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