Cory Aitchison Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Working as a university supervisor and tutor for undergraduate and masters-level ("Part II and III") mathematics and physics courses.

Sydney, Australia

Focussing on Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, I help HSC students achieve their potential through personal tutoring, class-based teaching, and resource creation.

Quantum Information research assistant in the quantum theory research group at USYD - working on topological quantum error correcting codes.

Lead tutor for first- and second-year data science courses, as well as third-year advanced physics courses, at the University of Sydney

Honours student in the quantum theory research group at the University of Sydney. My Honours project - supervised by Prof. Andrew Doherty and co-supervisor Dr Dominic Williamson from the quantum theory group - is looking at quantum codes. Quantum computers have opened up a wide range of fascinating research areas in recent decades, from theoretical algorithm designs to the actual implementations of hardware. One open area of research is to do with the fragility of quantum information. Quantum bits are extremely susceptible to noise, and "quantum codes" are a ubiquitous approach to protect these systems, so that they can be used for storage and computation. In my project, I hope to examine the effect of defects and boundaries in three dimensional topological codes. This approach, over the more well-explored two dimensional surface codes, has potential advantages such as operating on more realistic system layouts.

Run computer labs and monitor forums for students from first year and second year data science courses (course codes: DATA1001, DATA1901, DATA2902)

Recipient of the Engineering Vacation Research Internship Scholarship for Winter 2021. I was a winter research intern with the Faculty of Engineering, working to implement and test Quantum Fourier Transform algorithms on IBM Quantum computers

Recipient of the Sydney Quantum Academy Undergraduate Research Scholarship (Summer 2020-2021). Investigated the creation, testing, and manipulation of semiconductor hole-spin qubits at millikelvin temperatures.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Working under Professor Bedding at the School of Physics, I developed skills in programming (Python) and astrophysics as I participated in asteroseismology research. Through this, I was introduced to the nature of university research, while also solving challenges in data manipulation and visualisation.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Applied Mathematics And Theoretical Physics

Bachelor Of Science And Bachelor Of Advanced Studies, Physics (Honours) And Statistics, University Medal, Honours Class 1

Activities and Societies: Dalyell Scholar

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: School Vice Captain, Head Prefect for Academics, Cadet Under Officer (Logistics Officer), Da Vinci Decathlon.