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
Biography:
Dr Muhammad Usman is a Team Leader and Principal Staff Member at CSIRO’s Data61 which is Australia National Research Organisation. He has over 15 years of research and teaching experience in the field of quantum computing with a track-record of delivering research projects with over $12 Million in research grants and over 85 research papers in high-impact international journals. At CSIRO, Dr Usman is leading a team of over 20 researchers working at the forefront of quantum algorithms, quantum software engineering, and quantum security. He is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and serves on the executive editorial boards of two international journals, a committee member of Standards Australia to help in standardisation of quantum technologies and have honorary Associate Professor positions at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. Dr Usman is the chair of organising committee of international conference on quantum techniques in machine learning 2024, has delivered numerous invited talks in international conferences and has been invited on several panel discussions at national and international meetings. He was nominated as the Innovative of the Year 2023 Award by the Australian Defence Industry Awards 2023, Winner of the Australian Army Quantum Technology Challenge in three years in a row (2021, 2022 and 2023), Rising Stars in Computational Materials Science by Elsevier in 2020, and Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research (Early Career) at the University of Melbourne in 2019. Dr Usman is a recipient of prestigious international research fellowships from Fulbright USA (20005-2010) and DAAD Germany in 2010. Dr Usman is a passionate quantum educator and has been promoting quantum education among school children as part of the CSIRO’s STEM Scientists in Schools program.
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.
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