Auguste Hirth - Teaching Assistant at University of California, Los Angeles

Auguste Hirth

Teaching Assistant at University of California, Los Angeles

California, United States

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Auguste Hirth is a PhD student and teaching assistant at UCLA with seven years of software and research experience focused on quantum compilation and programming languages. He has hands-on experience comparing quantum languages, designing coursework, and building infrastructure that lets students run programs on real quantum hardware. As a frequent technical writer for the widely used Cirq quantum framework, he has restructured tutorials, created new guides, and improved documentation clarity and reliability for NISQ circuit users. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic tooling and pedagogy to make quantum computing more accessible.

6 years of coding experience

Bachelor of Applied Science and Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science and Arts, Computer Science at The Evergreen State College

Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles

Github Skills (10)

user-manual10

quantum-computing10

cirq10

learn-ruby-on-rails10

basics10

documentation10

python9

api5

algorithms5

user-interface4

Programming languages (2)

C++Python

Github contributions (5)

quantumlib/Cirq

Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

An open-source Python framework for creating, editing, and invoking Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) circuits.

Role in this project:

Technical Writer

Contributions:50 reviews, 27 commits, 32 PRs in 7 months

Contributions summary:Auguste's commits primarily involve significant revisions and restructuring of documentation within the `cirq` repository, specifically the tutorial pages. The focus is on improving the clarity, organization, and accuracy of the documentation. The user refactors existing tutorials and creates new ones, including content for the "Basics" tutorial, "Qubit Picking" and other guides. The user also fixes broken links and generally improves the style and readability of multiple pages and notebooks.

pythonquantum-circuitsquantum-computingcircuitsquantum-algorithms

augustehirth/ReCirq

Dec 2021 - Aug 2023

Research using Cirq!

Contributions:63 pushes, 33 branches in 1 year 8 months

cirq

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