My Qiskit Journey

From QPong to LHC and beyond

Huang Junye

Qiskit Advocate

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

C#

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 talk

coaching

Quantum Future Hackathon

CERN

18-19 Oct 2019

Visited

CMS detector

IBM Research Zurich

Google Zurich

ETH Zurich

EPFL

Qiskit Advocate

28 Oct 2019

Made many fantastic friends

Samanvay Sharma

Vicente Pina Canelles

Amira Abbas

Elies Gil Fuster

...

Github Contributions

“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"

Acknowledgement