Gavin Hartnett
Senior Lead Scientist at Q-CTRL
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolGavin Hartnett is a Senior Lead Scientist with a decade of experience at the intersection of emerging technologies, policy research, and quantitative methods, currently based in Santa Monica. He leads research and tooling at Q-CTRL focused on making real quantum computers more reliable, while maintaining an adjunct information-science role at RAND where he studies societal impacts of AI, blockchain, cryptography, and ML. Trained as a theoretical and mathematical physicist (PhD, UC Santa Barbara) with postdoctoral work in classical and quantum gravity, he brings a deep mathematical rigor to applied problems in quantum engineering and technology policy. Known for translating complex theory into practical algorithms and policy-relevant analysis, he combines hands-on research leadership with a rare ability to bridge academic, government, and commercial contexts.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Physics and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Physics and Mathematics at Syracuse UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at UC Santa Barbara
English
Github Skills (20)
automatic-differentiation9
python8
jit8
bayesian8
composable8
gpu8
machine-learning8
autodiff8
pytorch8
tpu7
jax7
bayesian-inference6
density-estimation6
probabilistic5
numpy5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gshartnett/network_vaccination
May 2021 - Jul 2024
Contains code used to simulate simple epidemic models on network datasets.
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 2 months
gshartnett/introAI
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 19 pushes in 1 month
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