Ankur Agrawal
Staff Quantum Engineer at D-Wave
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkur Agrawal is a Staff Quantum Engineer with a decade of experience building and deploying superconducting and spin-qubit systems, currently working at D-Wave after helping deliver a high-fidelity dual-rail QPU at Quantum Circuits. He combines hands-on quantum hardware development, cryogenic control stacks, and electromagnetic design to bridge gate calibration and QPU deployment for alpha customers. His PhD from the University of Chicago involved creating quantum metrology tools to boost signal-to-noise in dark matter searches, reflecting a rare blend of fundamental physics and product-focused engineering. At AWS he developed test and measurement infrastructure for spin qubits in nanophotonic devices, and earlier work spans detector simulation at CERN and embedded home automation projects. Comfortable operating across research labs and production environments, he’s known for translating complex cryogenic and calibration challenges into fielded systems. Based in New Haven, he brings both experimental rigor and pragmatic delivery to scaling next-generation quantum hardware.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombaySecondary Education, Secondary Education at Delhi Public School, JaipurDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at University of Chicago
English, Hindi, German
Github Skills (18)
instrumentation8
sarif7
tex7
latex7
quantum-computing7
beamer6
issue-tracking3
theory2
symbolic-math2
wolfram-language2
mathematics1
python1
reader1
math1
anaconda1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ankur92/qick
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
QICK: Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit
Contributions:2 pushes in 10 months
instrumentationquantumquantum-computing
ankur92/theory
Aug 2024 - Feb 2025
Physics, math and other theory
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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