Yung Yap
Chief Technical Officer at Centre for Quantum Technologies
Ayer Bemban, Johor, Malaysia
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Top SchoolYung Yap is a CTO and academic leader with over a decade of hands-on experience in microwave engineering and quantum computing, specializing in electron spin and superconducting qubits operating up to 140 GHz at milliKelvin temperatures. He bridges industry and research as CTO of AQSolotl, coordinator of Malaysia Quantum Information Initiative, and a Specially Appointed Associate Professor, while maintaining long-term academic roles at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His career includes international research stints at Osaka University and the Centre for Quantum Technologies, translating low-temperature ESR techniques into scalable superconducting quantum hardware. Known for combining precise experimental skill with systems-level thinking, he routinely works with both wet and dry dilution refrigerators and complex microwave instrumentation. Based in Johor, Malaysia, he brings rare domain depth from PhD-level quantum computing research to practical leadership in emerging quantum technology ventures.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Quantum Computing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Quantum Computing at Osaka UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Github Skills (24)
beamer10
overleaf10
latexmk10
utm10
cpython9
tex9
typesetting9
latex9
python-bindings9
cpp8
cython8
image-viewer7
c-compiler7
python7
wxwidgets6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
utmthesis/utmthesis
Oct 2015 - Jun 2021
The LaTeX class for Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) thesis.
Contributions:15 releases, 40 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 9 months
typesettingutmoverleafbeamerthesis
cython/cython
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
The most widely used Python to C compiler
Contributions:3 comments in 7 days
cpython-extensionscpppythonpython-bindingsbig-data
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