Anthony Ransford
Principal Physicist at Quantinuum
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Ransford is a Principal Physicist with 12 years of experience designing and building trapped-ion quantum computing hardware, blending atomic physics, electrical engineering, optics, and mechanical design. He earned a PhD from UCLA for developing high-fidelity measurement techniques with trapped ions and has progressed through technical leadership roles at Honeywell and Quantinuum, now guiding system-level device development. His work sits at the intersection of experimental physics and multidisciplinary engineering, delivering scalable, high-coherence quantum modules used in production research. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs deep laboratory expertise with hands-on systems integration and a track record of translating complex physics into robust engineering solutions. An uncommon strength is his ability to bridge low-level measurement innovation with the practical constraints of manufacturable quantum hardware.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (27)
pyqtgraph10
grapher10
trap10
php8
gitlab8
ruby7
python-interface7
rails7
api6
graph6
python6
gitbook6
markdown6
graph-analysis6
gitlab-api6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HaeffnerLab/RealSimpleGrapher
Jan 2016 - Apr 2018
LabRAD grapher written in pyqtgraph
Contributions:56 commits, 15 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 3 months
graph-analysispythonpyqtgraphgraphergraph
CampbellGroup/Qsim
May 2014 - Mar 2020
Ion trap experiment
Contributions:316 commits, 6 PRs, 150 pushes in 5 years 11 months
iontrap
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