Muhammad Usman

Team Leader Quantum Systems, Data61, CSIRO, Clayton Victoria, Australia.

Associate Professor (H/F), School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Adjunct Associate Professor (R), School of Physics, Monash University, Australia.

Email: muhammad (dot) usman (at) csiro (dot) au OR musman (at) unimelb (dot) edu (dot) au

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Employment:


2022-current: Team Leader Quantum Systems, Principal Research Staff, Data61 CSIRO, Clayton Victoria Australia.


2023-current: Adjunct Associate Professor (R), School of Physics, Monash University, Clayton Victoria Australia.


2022-current: Associate Professor (F/H), School of Physics, The University of Melbourne Australia. 


2020-2022: IBM Q Hub Academic, The University of Melbourne Australia.


2021-2022: Senior Research Fellow, School of Physics, ARC Center for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, The University of Melbourne Australia.


2019-2021: Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne Australia.


2014-2018: Senior Research Fellow, School of Physics, ARC Center for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, The University of Melbourne Australia.


2010-2013: Post-doctoral Researcher, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland.

Education:


    2010: PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana USA.


    2005: MSc Electrical Engineering (Honours), University of Engineering and Technology Lahore.


    2003: BSc Electrical Engineering (Honours & Distinction), University of Engineering and Technology Lahore.

Selected Grants, Awards, Honours and Fellowships:


2024: Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics. 


2024: Australian Army Funded Project, "Crosstalk attacks and defence in quantum compiler" 


2023: Finalist Innovator of the Year 2023 Award by Defence Industry Awards (Defence Connect) Canberra.


2023: Australian Army Quantum Technology Challenge 2023, "Security in Quantum Compilers"


2023-24: Australian Army Funded Project, "Quantum Machine Learning: Robustness and Optimisation


2022-25: Next Generation Technology Funds (NGTF), "Quantum Information Technology: Industry Readiness & Applications"     


2022-25: Leading a Team of Researchers with FSP Quantum Technology Support (3 Projects).

    

    2022: Australian Army Quantum Technology Challenge 2022, "Quantum Adversarial Machine Learning for Threat Identification and Mitigation"     


    2021: Australian Army Quantum Technology Challenge 2021, "Last Mile Resupply Problem on Quantum Computer"     


    2020: Elsevier, Finalist in the international 2nd Rising Stars in Computational Materials Science Competition


    2020: Defence Science Institute (DSI) Quantum Computing Award, "Machine Learning for Quantum Error Correction"   


    2019: Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, The University of Melbourne Australia


    2010: DAAD Research Fellowship, "Multi-scale Quantum Dot Simulations"


    2006: Purdue University Graduate School Tuition Award


    2005: USA State Department, Fulbright Fellowship, "Multi-million atom Electronic Structure Calculations for Quantum Dots"


    2002: K.E. Durrani Fellowship


    1998: Government of Pakistan Award


    1996: Government of Pakistan Award

Editorial Services

2021-current: Member Executive Editorial Board, IOP Nature Futures journal

2021-current: Member Editorial Board, IOP Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science journal

2020 Editor: Special Issue MDPI Energies

Professional Memberships and Affiliations:


American Physical Society (APS) 

Australian Institute of Physics (AIP)

Materials Research Society (MRS)

Engineers Australia

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) 

Past Supervisors:


2014-2018       Lloyd C.L. Hollenberg (University of Melbourne, VIC Australia) -- Personal Web

2010-2014       Eoin P. O'Reilly (Tyndall National Institute, Cork Ireland) -- Personal Web, Google-Scholar

2005-2010       Gerhard Klimeck (Purdue University, Indiana, USA) -- Personal Web, Google-Scholar