Ryan Shaffer @ryanmshaffer

Quantum computing scientist at @AWS. Previously: @Microsoft, @Facebook, @SandiaLabs, @BerkeleyPhysics, @MITSDM. Diehard @CleGuardians fan. All views are my own. ryanshaffer.net Joined August 2010

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Quantum @quantumjournal

3 years ago

Newly published in Quantum: Sample-efficient verification of continuously-parameterized quantum gates for small quantum processors by Ryan Shaffer, Hang Ren, Emiliia Dyrenkova, Christopher G. Yale, Daniel S. Lobser, Ashlyn D. Burch, Matthew ... doi.org/10.22331/q-202…

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3 years ago

And last but not least, the arXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2204.05451

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3 years ago

Python code for the SBO optimizer is available at github.com/sandialabs/sbo…

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Ryan Shaffer @ryanmshaffer

3 years ago

New in @PhysRevA: a surrogate-based optimization (SBO) technique for VQAs. The goal is to minimize an expectation value over a multi-parameter landscape. Work with Lucas Kocia and @mohansarovar. journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/1… Why is SBO relevant? 👇

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Ryan Shaffer @ryanmshaffer

4 years ago

@kenbrownquantum @GradDivision the humanity we have lost by moving to electronic signatures

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4 years ago

let’s be honest, the lollipop is the only reason I went to grad school.

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4 years ago

@kenbrownquantum @GradDivision did you eat yours? I was considering framing it with my diploma

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Ryan Shaffer @ryanmshaffer

4 years ago

@GuenP @GradDivision thanks but no need for congrats, I haven’t eaten it yet

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Katie Hyatt @kslimes

4 years ago

Excited to announce Braket.jl, an experimental #julialang SDK for Amazon Braket, where you can build, test, and run #quantum computing experiments in Julia, using quantum computers and simulators on Amazon Braket. Check it our full blog post at forem.julialang.org/kshyatt/introd…!

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Cleveland Guardians @CleGuardians

4 years ago

PUT THE BALL IN PLAY. #ForTheLand | #GuardiWWins

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Ryan Shaffer @ryanmshaffer

4 years ago

this is a really tough question. any advice, twitter? (from APS March abstract submission page)

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Ryan Shaffer @ryanmshaffer

4 years ago

some of the qualifications and responsibilities:

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4 years ago

the internship posting in question:

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Ryan Shaffer @ryanmshaffer

4 years ago

so many people making fun of this “quantum research” internship listing that showed up on the TikTok careers page. I get it, it’s fun to mock TikTok. but it really shouldn’t be surprising that the parent company ByteDance is interested in quantum. many big tech companies are.