Shelly Garion
Research Staff Member at IBM
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolShelly Garion is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research Israel with seven years of experience bridging deep mathematical theory and practical quantum software development. A mathematician by training (PhD) and a former postdoctoral fellow at leading European institutes, she now contributes core back-end features and Clifford-group synthesis to the widely used open-source Qiskit SDK and authors educational Qiskit tutorials. Her background in big-data operational analytics and machine learning for cloud storage gives her a rare combination of scalable engineering and rigorous algorithmic expertise. She has a long track record of clean, refactoring-focused contributions—improving quantum circuit primitives, noise-characterization tooling, and documentation—that make sophisticated quantum techniques more accessible. Colleagues benefit from her experience mentoring teams in both academic and defense research environments and her habit of turning abstract algebraic insights into reliable software.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Leo-Beck High school, HaifaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics at The Hebrew University
English, Hebrew, German, French
Github Skills (8)
circuit10
user-manual10
quantum-computing10
jupyter-notebook10
develop10
qiskit10
python10
documentation10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
qiskit-community/qiskit-ignis
Feb 2019 - May 2021
Ignis (deprecated) provides tools for quantum hardware verification, noise characterization, and error correction.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 67 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Shelly primarily updated and cleaned code within the `qiskit-ignis` repository, specifically focusing on the `randomized_benchmarking` module. The commits involved modifications to existing Python files, including adjustments to the `BinaryVector.py`, `rb_fitters.py`, and `randomizedbenchmarking.py` files. These updates included code cleaning, adding comments to increase readability, and changing gate names to align with the current version of Qiskit.
characterizationquantum-computingquantum-algorithmsphotonicsquantum-programming-language
qiskit-community/qiskit-community-tutorials
Mar 2019 - Dec 2019
A collection of Jupyter notebooks developed by the community showing how to use Qiskit
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Shelly's primary contribution involves adding and updating tutorials within the `qiskit-community-tutorials` repository. These changes include adding a tutorial on the structure of the Clifford group, extending the RB overview, updating the QV overview, and adding a community tutorial on interleaved and purity RB. The commits focused on creating documentation and educational content related to quantum computing concepts and Qiskit. The user also added a Qiskit logo to the Clifford group notebook.
jupyter-notebooknotebooksjupyterqiskitjupyter-notebooks
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