My Quantum Journey

From QPong to LHC and beyond

Junye Huang

Quantum Developer Advocate

IBM Quantum Community Team

About me

IBM Quantum Developer Advocate
Focusing on promoting quantum education
Participant of the first Qiskit Camp
Organized the first university Qiskit hackathon in the world
Co-creator of quantum games

I love quantum computers!

Learn how to fabricate superconducting qubits
Learn how to operate a dilution refrigerator
Learn how to use measurement electronics
Learn how to design experiments
Learn how to analyse data
Learn how to publish papers
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Get a job in a QC company

How do I get a job in the QC industry?

My plan

Reality

Qiskit Camp 2019

27 Feb - 1 Mar 2019

NanoDays with a Quantum Leap

Courtesy of James Weaver (IBM)

Clean up and polish QPong

6 Apr 2019

Learning points

Python

Github

IBM Quantum Arcade

Courtesy of Gregory Boland (IBM)

Remake QPong in Unity game engine

6 Jun - 12 Sep 2019

Learning points

Unity game engine

Game design principles

Open source collaboration

Coding with Qiskit

2 Aug 2019

Qiskit Hackathon @ SG

Source: Centre for Quantum Technologies

Centre for Quantum Technologies

11-12 Oct 2019

Learning points

Event organization

Public speaking

Coaching

Quantum Future Hackathon

CERN

Birth place of Higgs boson

18-19 Oct 2019

Visited

CMS detector

IBM Research Zurich

Google Zurich

ETH Zurich

EPFL

CMS detector visit with Dr. James Wootton (IBM Research)

Qiskit Advocate

28 Oct 2019

Made many good friends

Samanvay Sharma

Vicente Pina Canelles

Amira Abbas

Omar Costa Hamido

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Coffee with Vicente in Murcia, Spain

Github Contributions

Qiskit Camp 2019

“At the beginning of this month, I got a job working for IBM Research. One of my team mates from the Rigetti hackathon, Sohaib Alam, started a job at Rigetti at the same time. Quantum game design seems to be a career with better prospects than normal game design!”

-- James Wootton

IBM Research Staff Member

Pioneer of Quantum Games

"Wrangler of qubits"

3rd data point: I joined Qiskit in March 2020!

Moral of the story

Many different types of jobs in QC industry
- Quantum Researcher (Zlatko Minev)
- Quantum Developer (Lauren Capelluto)
- Quantum Engineer (Mary Beth Rothwell)
- Quantum Educator (Abe Asfaw)
- Classical Developer (V a Barbosa)
- Technical Writer (Ryan Mandelbaum)
- Human Resources (Bradley Holt)
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Be active in the community and contribute
Make yourself visible (Twitter & LinkedIn)