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.


2024 - 2025
MASc at the University of British Columbia (QSAR group), where I worked with Olivia Di Matteo (advisor) and Natalie Klco to simulate quantum field theories on quantum computers. Our work culminated in the following publication in Physical Review D: Non-Abelian dynamics on a cube: Improving quantum compilation through qudit-based simulations. I also enjoyed an internship at softwareQ, working on distributed hyperbolic Floquet codes. I remain an advisor and advocate for Verdi Expeditions .
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.


Timeline view inspired by Andrej Karpathy's website.
CC BY-SA 4.0 Jacky Jiang. Last modified: November 21, 2025. Website built with Franklin.jl and the Julia programming language. The layout was inspired by Renjie Liao's website, with permission from the author.