Harrison Ball Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Performl provides health and social services with new insights to target preventive care. We do this by transforming vast open data about people's support needs.

United Kingdom

Building scalable ion-trapping hardware for quantum computing.

Sydney, Australia

Founding member at deep tech startup. Lead responsibility for R&D.❑ Project management — Define, review & deliver research output from team of research scientists and engineers. Agile project management via Jira software.❑ Projects — Co-developed mathematical framework and high-performance TensorFlow optimizer to solve multi-dimensional problems in quantum control. ❑ Industry engagement — Leading/led multiple projects applying these tools to deliver core R&D outcomes for commercial engagements across industry and academia (IBM, Rigetti Computing and others).

Sydney Nanoscience Hub A31 | Nsw 2006, Australia

R&D technical lead. Generated critical company IP & patent. ❑ R&D — Developed advanced mathematical framework to compute key figures of merit for optimizing control over multi-dimensional quantum systems. ❑ Programming — Built object-oriented Python package for numerically optimizing control solutions. Worked with a team of web developers in an Agile workflow to deliver customer-ready software via a SaaS platform.

Sydney Nanoscience Hub A31 | Lab 2030 | Nsw 2006, Australia

Experimental physics research. Led successful build, demonstration and publication of ion-trapping hardware supporting large-scale quantum simulation with hundreds of qubits (arXiv:1807.00902).

Sydney Nanoscience Hub A31 | Lab 2030 | Nsw 2006, Australia

❑ Theoretical physics (8 peer-reviewed publications) — Advanced a variety of analytic, numeric & statistical techniques for robust/optimized control & benchmarking of noisy quantum hardware, including experimental validation of theory predictions.❑ Experimental physics (3 peer-reviewed publications) — Led the design, construction & testing of a complex atomic-physics experiment build. Now one of 3 labs in the world supporting cutting-edge quantum simulation research using hundreds of trapped-ion qubits. ❑ Cross-disciplinary knowledge — engineering, materials science, optical/laser/atomic physics, cryogenics, vacuum technology, programming & experimental control.