I'm Evan Hockings, a Member of Technical Staff at Iceberg Quantum.
I am principally interested in mitigating the existential risks posed by artificial intelligence.
During my PhD in the Quantum Theory Group at the University of Sydney, advised by Andrew Doherty and Robin Harper, I worked on characterising noise in quantum computers. In particular, I focused on scalable noise characterisation methods for quantum error correction. I believe science should be open-source wherever possible, and developed QuantumACES.jl to make it easy to design, simulate, and implement noise characterisation experiments for quantum computers.
Publications
- Characterising the failure mechanisms of error-corrected quantum logic gates arXiv:2504.07258
- Improving error suppression with noise-aware decoding arXiv:2502.21044
- QuantumACES.jl: design noise characterisation experiments for quantum computers doi:10.21105/joss.07707
- Scalable noise characterisation of syndrome extraction circuits with averaged circuit eigenvalue sampling doi:10.1103/PRXQuantum.6.010334 · arXiv:2404.06545
- Improved optical confinement in ambipolar field-effect transistors toward electrical injection organic lasers doi:10.1063/5.0063336
Other writing
The risks posed by artificial intelligence demand serious consideration for Honi Soit, October 2022.