resume

Basics

Name Miles Douglas Gorman
Email mdgorman@usc.edu
Citizenship American and Australian
Location Los Angeles, California, United States

Education

  • 2024 - present
    Doctor of Philosophy
    Electrical Engineering
    University of Southern California, United States
  • 2022 - 2023
    Master of Advanced Study (Part III)
    Applied Mathematics
    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • 2018 - 2022
    Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours)
    Physics
    University of Queensland, Australia

Projects

  • present
    A Syndrome-Extraction-Gadget Family That Unifies Shor-, Steane-, and Kinll-Style Error Correction
    Proposed a family of fault-tolerant syndrome extraction gadgets with circuit depths and qubit counts between or equal to those of Shor-, Steane-, and Knill-style gadgets. Currently preparing for publication.
  • present
    A Review of Syndrome Extraction in Quantum Error Correction
    A review of the various techniques for fault-tolerant syndrome extraction: naive syndrome extraction, Shor syndrome extraction, Steane syndrome extraction, Knill syndrome extraction, flag-basted syndrome extraction, hybrid syndrome extraction techniques, measurement-based quantum computing, and fusion-based quantum computing - as they pertain to syndrome extraction. Currently preparing for publication.
  • present
    Ancilla-Free Preparation of Quantum Error-Correcting Codes
    Designed an algorithm that finds, for arbitrary stabilizer codes, ancilla-free encoding circuits with significantly reduced overheads compared to the literature’s most prominent method. This work served as the basis for my honours thesis and is now being prepared for publication.
  • 2023
    Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
    Essay on the threshold theorem and the overhead of fault-tolerant quantum computing.
    Avaliable here.
  • 2021
    Fusion-Based Foliated Quantum Codes
    Proposed an algorithm that generalizes the construction of arbitrary foliated CSS codes by fusing resource states.
  • 2021
    Union-Find Decoding on the XZZX Surface Code
    Implemented and benchmarked the union-find decoder on the XZZX surface code and proposed a modification to the decoder that could offer improved thresholds.
  • 2021
    An Introduction to Quantum Error Correction and Decoding Algorithms
    A review of quantum error correction with an emphasis on decoding.
  • 2020
    Fault-Tolerant Error Correction Using Optimized Linear Codes
    Optimized the number of measurements required for fault-tolerant syndrome extraction on a classical code and numerically simulated the scheme’s performance.