Evan Peters
Quantum Scientist at Xanadu
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEvan Peters is a quantum scientist and software-minded researcher with a decade of experience building and optimizing quantum-classical algorithms and tooling. He holds advanced degrees from the University of Waterloo and has progressed from qubit design and fabrication to leading AI and QML efforts, including a postdoc and industry roles at Xanadu. A core contributor to prominent open-source projects like Cirq and an early developer on TensorFlow Quantum, he blends rigorous theoretical work with pragmatic backend engineering and test automation. His contributions span low-level gate implementations and numerical utilities (e.g., global-phase-aware comparisons and Pauli expectation functions), showing attention to both correctness and usability. Evan’s background includes applied physics research at national labs and startups, giving him rare fluency across experiment, simulation, and software stacks. He’s known for translating complex quantum research into production-ready code and tools that accelerate NISQ-era workflows.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Applied Physics, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor's of Science, Applied Physics, Summa Cum Laude at Oregon State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics (Quantum Information), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics (Quantum Information) at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (12)
testing10
quantum-computing10
quantum-algorithms10
cirq10
python10
numpy10
algorithms9
circuit8
simulation8
simulations8
linear-algebra8
simulator8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
quantumlib/Cirq
May 2019 - Oct 2021
A Python framework for creating, editing, and invoking Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) circuits.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 15 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributes to the Cirq library by implementing new features and improving existing functionality, specifically focusing on approximate equality and global phase comparison. They added new functions and tests related to `equal_up_to_global_phase` and `subwavefunction`. Furthermore, the user fixed the `YPowGate` docstring, and added expected value functions for `PauliString` and `PauliSum`. Additionally, the user implemented the `_apply_unitary_` method for `YPowGate`, and fixed the `Qcircuit` exponent.
pythonquantum-circuitsquantum-computingcircuitsquantum-algorithms
peterse/groveropt
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:71 commits, 47 pushes, 3 branches in 3 days
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