Alexander Deters
Doctoral Student at Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Deters is a doctoral student in quantum science and engineering at Harvard with 11 years of hands-on experience building control systems for quantum hardware. Trained at Yale with dual intensive B.S. degrees in physics and mathematics, he combines FPGA design (Verilog, RFSoC) and low-level software (Python, C/C++) to deliver scalable quantum control and error-correction solutions. His work spans lithium quantum gas microscopy, superconducting qubit noise measurement architectures, and an FPGA-based distributed surface-code decoder that led to conference publications and talks. Equally comfortable writing synthesizable hardware generators as shipping Python libraries, he accelerates design cycles—once speeding a critical optimization step by over 10x—and plans to open-source tooling from his Caltech project. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings rare cross-disciplinary fluency across experiment, theory, and embedded systems, grounded in practical lab engineering.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Quantum Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Quantum Science and Engineering at Harvard UniversityDual Intensive B.S., Physics, Mathematics, 3.95/4.00, Dual Intensive B.S., Physics, Mathematics, 3.95/4.00 at Yale University
Russian, English
Github Skills (19)
union-find8
fpga8
nintendo8
emacs-lisp7
emacs7
quantum-computing7
parrot6
algorithm6
kali-linux5
java5
hacking4
homebrew4
pentesting4
offensive-security4
pentest4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AFriendlyTrashcan/Vigor
Feb 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
AFriendlyTrashcan/AFriendlyTrashcan.github.io
Nov 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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