CURRICULUM VITAE
Stuart Flannigan
Quantum Applications Lead and Computational Physicist
Quantum applications lead with a PhD in theoretical quantum physics and more than four years of industry experience translating research and mathematical ideas into deployed software.
Works across quantum algorithms, optimization platforms, provider integrations, asynchronous execution, scientific computing, tensor networks, QEC, benchmarking, and technical direction. Strongest at the boundary between physical assumptions, software architecture, and evidence-led product decisions.
Quantum Applications Lead
Commutator Studios- Leads quantum applications work at the boundary between customer needs, product direction and technical delivery.
Senior Quantum Software Engineer
Strangeworks- Principal technical owner of the shared across SDKs, canonical problem models, routing, heterogeneous provider services, , billing, results, tests and deployment.
- Continued to own and improve the products after creating their original algorithms, SDKs and services.
- Drove the prototype, architecture and adoption of , turning blocking solver calls into durable submit, status and result workflows with queue controls and failure recovery.
- Revamped the integrations for primitives, sessions, modern provider lifecycles and Hybrid Jobs.
- Led a on Rigetti hardware through Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs, using repeated runs, uncertainty, scaling and a strong classical baseline.
- Drove quantum and optimization direction for that translated natural-language problems into executable MIP or QUBO models, selected solvers and analysed results.
Quantum Algorithm Scientist
Strangeworks- from concept and research prototype through production architecture, implementation, benchmarking, testing, documentation, CI/CD and deployment.
- Designed as a provider-independent parent/child workflow that decomposed large QUBO or Ising problems, coordinated heterogeneous solvers and reconstructed one product-level result.
- Worked directly on a long-running pharmaceutical engagement spanning formulation, execution, large-data analysis, visualization, interpretation and co-authoring the final scientific report.
Research Associate
University of Strathclyde- Developed incorporating AMO physics, calibration effects and experimentally observed noise.
- Designed and executed on HPC clusters, managing and analysing tens of thousands of compute-intensive many-body jobs.
- Collaborated with experimental groups on quantitative error propagation and many-body spin dynamics, including .
- and helped guide their research direction.
QEC, FTQC, quantum algorithms, tensor networks, many-body physics, noise modelling, resource estimation, QUBO and Ising formulation, hardware-aware benchmarking
Python, Julia, MATLAB, Wolfram Language, Qiskit, Amazon Braket, Stim, ITensors, Cirq, CUDA-Q, FastAPI
API and SDK design, service architecture, asynchronous jobs, scientific data pipelines, HPC, Docker, AWS, GCP, Modal, CI/CD, automated testing, code review
Fred Stern Memorial Prize (2020) · Carnegie PhD Scholarship (2017-2020) · Astronomical Society of Glasgow Prize (2017) · Richard Thornley Memorial Prize (2017)