Jacky Jiang

I am a PhD student at the University of Sydney in the Quantum Theory Group, where I work with talented people on fault-tolerant quantum computing. I remain an advisor and advocate for Verdi Expeditions .

“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

School of Physics
The University of Sydney
Office: A28 Room 321
PhD Student

Last modified: March 22, 2026.


2024 - 2025
PhD at the University of Sydney (Quantum Theory Group), where I work with Dominic Williamson (advisor) on fault-tolerant quantum computing.
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.
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: March 22, 2026. Website built with Franklin.jl and the Julia programming language. The layout was inspired by Renjie Liao's website, with permission from the author.