Kay's Playground

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PhD quest · year 1Level up: thesis

Character sheet

Kay

boba-powered

Class
PhD student, quantum info
Base
Darmstadt, Germany
Lived in
Hanoi · Brighton · Oxford · Singapore
Likes
Drawing, crochet, cats, ice & roller skating
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Superconducting qubits QuTiP, Qiskit & Qibo

Languages

Vietnamesenative
Englishfluent
GermanB1 · grinding

Quest log

  1. Darmstadt

    2025 – now

    PhD on quantum certification. Current quest: figure out how to prove a quantum device does what it claims.

  2. Singapore

    2023 – 2025

    Taught superconducting qubits to cool themselves down. Shipped code to Qibo and ran experiments on real chips.

    1 preprint1 PRRopen source

  3. Oxford

    2018 – 2022

    MPhys in Physics. Mapped where stars were born in Andromeda; ran the Vietnamese Society; showed prospective students around the department.

  4. Brighton

    2016 – 2018

    A-levels by the sea. Collected two olympiad golds along the way.

    BPhO goldBMO gold

Side projects

Habit Kitty: a pixel-art room with two cats, a cactus and a window

Habit Kitty

A cosy habit tracker where every habit is a cat. Keep your streaks and they move into your room; skip a day and they get hungry. This page is built with its design system.

pixel artweb app
Download the APK (v0.3.0) Source on GitHub

Right now

Currently

  • LearningGerman
  • ExploringFrankfurt

Fun facts

  • Studied galaxies before switching to qubits.
  • Has run code on quantum chips in Singapore and Abu Dhabi.
  • Has a 10-year-old white cat named Mup. Say hi!

Say hi: email · GitHub

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