Curriculum vitae
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Positions
- Member of Technical Staff July 2025–present Iceberg Quantum
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Physics) 2021–2025 University of Sydney Thesis: Noise characterisation of fault-tolerant quantum computersAdvisors: Andrew Doherty, Robin Harper
- Bachelor of Science (Advanced Mathematics) (Honours) in Physics 2017–2020 University of Sydney Honours Class I and the University MedalThesis: Scalable estimation of quantum noiseAdvisor: Steven FlammiaWeighted average mark: 90
Other experience
- Physics Research Assistant September 2024–July 2025 School of Physics, University of Sydney Advisor: Stephen Bartlett
- Machine Learning for Alignment Bootcamp August–September 2022 Redwood Research
- Chemistry Research Assistant February–June 2019 School of Chemistry, University of Sydney Advisor: Girish Lakhwani
- Physics Summer Research Internship November 2018–January 2019 Research School of Physics, Australian National University Advisor: Daniel Cocks
- Chemistry Summer Research Internship January–March 2018 School of Chemistry, University of Sydney Advisor: Girish Lakhwani
Awards and honours
- Unitary Foundation Microgrant (QuantumACES.jl) 2024
- Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship 2021–2024
- University of Sydney Honours Scholarship 2020
- Dean’s List of Excellence in Academic Performance 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- Faculty of Science Olympiad Scholarship 2017–2020
- Sydney Scholars Award 2017–2019
- School of Physics Julius Sumner Miller Scholarships for Academic Excellence No. 3 2019
- Walter Burfitt Scholarship No. 2 for Physics 2019
- University of Sydney Academic Merit Prize 2017, 2018
- Science Foundation for Physics Scholarship No. 2 2018
- School of Physics Julius Sumner Miller Scholarships for Academic Excellence No. 1 2017
- International Chemistry Olympiad Bronze Medal 2016
Publications
- R. Harper, C. Lainé, E. T. Hockings, C. McLauchlan, G. M. Nixon, B. J. Brown, S. D. Bartlett Characterising the failure mechanisms of error-corrected quantum logic gates arXiv preprint, 2025. arXiv:2504.07258
- E. T. Hockings, A. C. Doherty, R. Harper Improving error suppression with noise-aware decoding arXiv preprint, 2025. arXiv:2502.21044
- E. T. Hockings QuantumACES.jl: design noise characterisation experiments for quantum computers Journal of Open Source Software 10, 107, 7707, 2025. doi:10.21105/joss.07707
- E. T. Hockings, A. C. Doherty, R. Harper Scalable noise characterisation of syndrome extraction circuits with averaged circuit eigenvalue sampling PRX Quantum 6, 010334, 2025. doi:10.1103/PRXQuantum.6.010334 · arXiv:2404.06545
- Y. Li, R. P. Sabatini, S. K. K. Prasad, E. T. Hockings, T. W. Schmidt, G. Lakhwani Improved optical confinement in ambipolar field-effect transistors toward electrical injection organic lasers Applied Physics Letters 119, 163303, 2021. doi:10.1063/5.0063336
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