Alexander Deters

Hi, my name is Alex!

I'm a experimental atomic physicist working in Markus Greiner's lab at Harvard. There I work on the Lithium quantum gas microscope experiment for simulating the Fermi-Hubbard model.

I was previously in Robert Schoelkopf's group at Yale where I worked on an FPGA based quantum control system based on the Xilinx RFSoC board and researched techniques for improving linearity in microwave signal generation. Before that I worked in Lin Zhong's group, where I developed and implemented a schema for automatically generating Verilog code and synthesized device firmware for quantum error correction codes across an FPGA network.

I also worked in Oskar Painter's lab as part of the Caltech SURF fellowship, where I created a Python library automating design, simulation, and post-processing in Sonnet and applied it towards designing an array of qubits with varied SQUID geometries for flux noise spectroscopy.

At Yale I've served as co-president of the Yale Undergraduate Quantum Computing Society (YuQC) and won first place twice in the MIT iQuHACK quantum computing competition (2022 Superconducting Circuit Division, 2023 Neutral Atom Division).

I'm originally from a goat farm in rural Minnesota, and I speak English and Russian. In my free time I enjoy brewing espresso, weightlifting, and reworking my Vim setup for the umpteenth time. Feel free to reach out with any inquiries!