Diksha Dhawan
Quantum Software Developer II at Xanadu
Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDiksha Dhawan is a Quantum Software Developer II at Xanadu with a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry and seven years of experience at the intersection of quantum chemistry and quantum software. She transitioned from academic roles—including a postdoc at Virginia Tech and doctoral research at the University of Michigan—into industry-focused quantum software development, bringing deep domain knowledge in electronic structure and simulation. Diksha has practical experience bridging research and engineering through internships and research assistant roles (IBM, National Chemical Laboratory), enabling her to translate complex quantum algorithms into usable tooling. Based in Canada, she focuses on building software that accelerates quantum advantage for chemistry applications and contributes to cross-disciplinary teams. Her background suggests not only technical rigor but also a knack for turning theoretical chemistry problems into reproducible, production-ready code.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Physical Chemistry, Master of Science - MS, Physical Chemistry at University of HyderabadDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Chemistry at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the ArtsUniversity of Delhi
Hindi, Spanish, English
Github Skills (22)
autodiff10
pytorch10
quantum-chemistry10
quantum-algorithms10
python10
machine-learning10
cross-platform10
cirq10
photonics10
automatic-differentiation10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
autograd10
neural-network10
quantum-computing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ddhawan11/pennylane
Nov 2023 - Jan 2024
PennyLane is a cross-platform Python library for differentiable programming of quantum computers. Train a quantum computer the same way as a neural network.
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
ddhawan11/ACSE
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.