Stepan Fomichev
Lead Quantum Scientist at Xanadu
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolStepan Fomichev is a Quantum Scientist with a decade of experience bridging solid-state physics, quantum chemistry, and quantum algorithms to find practical applications for early fault-tolerant quantum computers. Currently at Xanadu after a Mitacs internship, he leads interdisciplinary projects that improve quantum state preparation using classical electronic-structure methods and bespoke software (Overlapper) integrated into Pennylane. His PhD work at UBC gave him deep atomistic modeling and HPC expertise across polymers, superconductors, magnetic memory materials, and organic photovoltaics, informing pragmatic algorithm design for near-term quantum hardware. Based in Vancouver, he combines academic rigor with industry-facing communication, regularly presenting to partners and translating domain-specific physics into deployable quantum workflows.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science - B.Sc., Physics and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Physics and Mathematics at University of Toronto
Github Skills (28)
pytorch10
quantum-chemistry10
quantum-algorithms10
python10
machine-learning10
cirq10
automatic-differentiation10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
autograd10
neural-network10
qml10
quantum-computing10
jax10
qiskit10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
XanaduAI/Overlapper
Jan 2024 - Aug 2024
Prepare and evaluate wavefunctions for quantum algorithms using computational chemistry techniques
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 3 branches in 6 months
computational-chemistryquantum-algorithms
Chiffafox/gravcollapse
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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