Nick Bronn
Global Strategic Research Development Lead
Town of Yorktown, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Bronn is a Global Strategic Research Development Lead at IBM who combines a PhD in experimental condensed matter physics with six years of hands-on quantum hardware and algorithm engineering to accelerate adoption of quantum computing in academia and national labs. He transitioned from building superconducting qubits in the lab to "experimenting" in code, contributing to Qiskit core (adding Global R gates) and authoring educational Qiskit Textbook and tutorial notebooks that clarify cQED and transmon physics. Nick bridges high-level strategy and deep technical execution, fluent in topics from device integration to quantum simulation, compilation, and error suppression. Based in Yorktown, NY, he is known for using open-source software as a research instrument—turning developer tools into experimental platforms—and for translating complex physics into accessible educational content.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
CASM, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, CASM, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at University of CambridgeM.S., Electrical Engineering, M.S., Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPh.D., Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Ph.D., Experimental Condensed Matter Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Turkish
Github Skills (15)
circuit10
user-manual10
quantum-computing10
jupyter-notebook10
quantum-programming-language10
qiskit10
sdk10
learn-ruby-on-rails10
basics10
python10
documentation10
ed2551910
testing9
transcode8
transpiler8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
qiskit-community/qiskit-community-tutorials
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
A collection of Jupyter notebooks developed by the community showing how to use Qiskit
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 commits, 10 PRs, 5 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nick's commits primarily involve adding companion notebooks to accompany video tutorials. The commits added notebooks related to Quantum Key Distribution, Hardy's paradox, the most important graph video, the pigeonhole paradox, and quantum simulation with Qiskit Nature and OPLfow. These notebooks demonstrate practical implementations and provide code examples related to the video tutorials, enhancing the educational value of the repository.
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Qiskit/qiskit
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of quantum circuit gate functionalities within the Qiskit library. They added and refined Global R gates (GR, GRX, GRY, GRZ) and related equivalences, including tests to validate these additions. Code changes involved modifying core library files (`gr.py`, `__init__.py`), test files, and transpiler components to incorporate and utilize the new gates, with a focus on the circuit's gate operations.
pythonquantum-circuitsquantum-computingcircuitsquantum-circuit
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