Jacky Jiang
I am a Master's student at the University of British Columbia in the QSAR group, where I work with talented people to pioneer particle physics simulations on quantum computers.
Previously, I was the technical co-founder of Verdi Expeditions, where I applied computation to enhance agricultural productivity.
“Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring."
- Carl Sagan
"If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. That's all there is to it."
- Richard P. Feynman
Email: jacky.j@alumni.ubc.ca Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
Office: KAIS 4065
Master's Student
Last modified: November 21, 2025.
2020 - 2023
Technical co-founder of
Verdi Expeditions, where I architected the world's first
variable-rate drip irrigation (VRDI) system. To maintain scalability of the system, I focused on defining the right abstraction layers and interfaces spanning electronics, firmware, networking, manufacturing and modeling. The architecture worked so well that it made a VC exclaim, "How the heck are you scaling your system with such little capital?" The ultimate goal of Verdi is to enable computation on farms at all levels, be it hardware, edge or cloud. If you can help us, please
reach out.
2016 - 2019
BASc at the University of British Columbia, where I majored in Electrical Engineering and minored in Physics. Got interested in computation & physics (as separate subjects). Explored these topics through 3 internships:
UBC System-on-a-Chip Lab, Intel NSG (now
Solidigm), and
Delta-Q. I made a 50x cheaper-than-off-the-shelf
microfluidic flowsensor for the
UBC BioMEMS Lab using optimization algorithms and the behaviour of heat + microscale fluids. Other notables: built my first turing-complete cpu and ran my first (tridiagonal) physics simulation.