Neil Glikin
Senior Scientist at IonQ
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Glikin is a Senior Scientist and quantum/atomic physicist with eight years of experience building and characterizing ion trapping systems, most recently developing a novel circular ion trap as a postdoc at UC Berkeley and now contributing to IonQ. He combines hands-on experimental skill—designing, probing, and iterating complex hardware—with software tooling and simulation to accelerate measurements and extract deep physical insight. Comfortable bridging lab and code, he enjoys automating workflows that make experimental cycles faster and more reproducible for teams. His background spans academic research, aerospace internship experience at SpaceX, and leadership on microgravity projects, reflecting a pragmatic, systems-level approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (9)
quantum-mechanics10
julia10
simulator9
pyqtgraph9
simulation9
grapher8
graph5
graph-analysis4
python4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HaeffnerLab/IonSim.jl
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
a simple tool for simulating trapped ion systems
Contributions:2 reviews, 94 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 7 months
quantum-opticsquantum-mechanicstrapped-ionsquantum-informationsimulation
HaeffnerLab/Data-Analysis-Tools
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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