CV
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Contact Information
| [email protected] | |
| Website | www.aqgauthier.com |
Education
| PhD, Physics | |
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| Yale University | August 2030 (expected) |
| New Haven, CT | |
| BSE, Engineering Physics and Computer Science | |
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| University of Michigan | May 2024 |
| Ann Arbor, MI | |
| GPA: 3.99/4.00 | |
Professional Experience
| Research and Development Intern, Quantum Information Science | |
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| Sandia National Laboratories | October 2022 -- September 2024 |
| Livermore, California (Remote) | |
| Software Development Intern | |
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| NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | May 2022 -- August 2022 |
| Pasadena, California (Remote) | |
- Created a Docker/Podman container for the Lander Vision System (LVS) test software suite for use on high-performance computing and cloud computing systems in support of the Mars Sample Return mission.
- Integrated containerized test suite with Dakota, an open-source parametric analysis toolkit, enabling enhanced coverage of the LVS operational envelope using parallelized Monte Carlo simulations.
- Prepared materials for software inheritance review, tested changes in flight software prior to merges; led demos to educate colleagues on high-performance computing and containers; and patched multiple software packages to accommodate use in parallel computing environments.
| Research and Development Intern, Quantum Phenomena | |
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| Sandia National Laboratories | May 2021 -- May 2022 |
| Albuquerque, New Mexico (Remote) | |
- Researched techniques to develop scalable, application-inspired benchmarks for quantum processors using block-encoded linear combination of unitaries (LCU) circuits and provided simulation support for that work, including creating reduced-qubit device-based noise models from calibration data.
- Completed literature review and created test environments for various quantum circuit simulators on high-performance computers for distributed, multithreaded, and GPU-accelerated software.
- Identified the most-performant simulators for integration in the Quantum Performance Lab's gate set tomography package, PyGSTi.
Honors and Awards
| James B. Angell Scholar (8 terms) | |
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| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | March 2025 |
| Awarded to students who earn grades of all A+, A, or A- for two or more consecutive terms. | |
| Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship Program | |
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| National Science Foundation | April 2024 |
| William J. Branstrom Freshman Prize | |
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| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | March 2021 |
| Awarded annually to first-year undergraduate students whose academic achievement during their first Fall term on campus places them in the upper five percent of their college class. | |