Boxi Li
Postdoctoral Scientist at Forschungszentrum Jülich
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolBoxi Li is a postdoctoral scientist and software engineer with 11 years of experience at the intersection of quantum physics and scientific software, currently based at Forschungszentrum Jülich. He completed a PhD at Jülich after earning an MS in Physics from ETH Zurich and a BS from Heidelberg University, blending rigorous theoretical training with hands-on coding. As a long-time maintainer and backend contributor to QuTiP—the widely used Quantum Toolbox in Python—he has improved numerical robustness, fixed critical bugs like integer overflows, and enhanced educational notebooks for quantum gates, algorithms, and noise modeling. Boxi combines research-grade simulation expertise with practical software engineering, making complex quantum tools more reliable and accessible to the community. An understated strength is his focus on documentation and reproducible examples, which amplifies his technical fixes into better onboarding and learning for new users.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS Physik, Bachelor of Science - BS Physik at Heidelberg UniversityMaster of Science - MS Physics, Master of Science - MS Physics at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich)
Github Skills (10)
quantum-computing10
quantum-mechanics10
jupyter-notebook10
debug10
refactoring10
python10
toolbox10
refactor10
documentation10
qutip10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
qutip/qutip-notebooks
Aug 2019 - Apr 2022
A collection of IPython notebooks using QuTiP: examples, tutorials, development test, etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 23 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Boxi has made multiple commits that introduced and modified code in several `.ipynb` files within the repository. Based on the file names, the user appears to be working on examples and tutorials using QuTiP, including those concerning quantum gates, quantum algorithms, device simulation, and noise modeling. These modifications span a range of topics, from code updates to fix typos and version updates. The overall impact of these commits is to refine and enhance the repository's documentation and code examples.
pythonunittestingjupyter-notebookipython-notebooksnotebooks
qutip/qutip
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
QuTiP: Quantum Toolbox in Python
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:87 reviews, 163 commits, 78 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Boxi's contributions primarily focus on fixing bugs and improving the code quality within the QuTiP library. Their work includes correcting integer overflows in numerical routines, fixing deprecated imports, and refactoring code in the qip module. They also addressed documentation errors in the codebase, contributing to improved code maintainability and user experience.
quantum-opticsquantum-toolboxphysicspythonquantum-mechanics
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