Curriculum vitae

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Positions

Doctor of Philosophy (Physics) 2021–2025 University of Sydney Thesis: Noise characterisation of fault-tolerant quantum computersAdvisors: Andrew Doherty, Robin Harper
Bachelor of Science (Advanced Mathematics) (Honours) in Physics 2017–2020 Honours Class I and the University Medal University of Sydney Weighted average mark: 90Thesis: Scalable estimation of quantum noiseAdvisor: Steven Flammia

Physics Research Assistant September 2024–July 2025 Advisor: Stephen Bartlett School of Physics, University of Sydney
Machine Learning for Alignment Bootcamp August–September 2022 Redwood Research
Chemistry Research Assistant February–June 2019 Advisor: Girish Lakhwani School of Chemistry, University of Sydney
Physics Summer Research Internship November 2018–January 2019 Advisor: Daniel Cocks Research School of Physics, Australian National University
Chemistry Summer Research Internship January–March 2018 Advisor: Girish Lakhwani School of Chemistry, University of Sydney

Unitary Foundation Microgrant (QuantumACES.jl) 2024
Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship 2021–2024
University of Sydney Honours Scholarship 2020
Dean’s List of Excellence in Academic Performance 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Faculty of Science Olympiad Scholarship 2017–2020
Sydney Scholars Award 2017–2019
School of Physics Julius Sumner Miller Scholarships for Academic Excellence No. 3 2019
Walter Burfitt Scholarship No. 2 for Physics 2019
University of Sydney Academic Merit Prize 2017, 2018
Science Foundation for Physics Scholarship No. 2 2018
School of Physics Julius Sumner Miller Scholarships for Academic Excellence No. 1 2017
International Chemistry Olympiad Bronze Medal 2016

S.-H. Lee, X. C. Kolesnikow, J. Zen, E. T. Hockings, C. K. McLauchlan, G. M. Nixon, T. R. Scruby, S. D. Bartlett, R. Harper, and B. J. Brown, Scalable quantum error correction tailored for a heavy-hex qubit array, arXiv:2604.14296.
P. Webster, L. Berent, O. Chandra, E. T. Hockings, N. Baspin, F. Thomsen, S. C. Smith, and L. Z. Cohen, The Pinnacle architecture: reducing the cost of breaking RSA-2048 to 100 000 physical qubits using quantum LDPC codes, arXiv:2602.11457.
R. Harper, C. Lainé, E. T. Hockings, C. McLauchlan, G. M. Nixon, B. J. Brown, and S. D. Bartlett, Characterising the failure mechanisms of error-corrected quantum logic gates, Nature Communications 17, 5039 (2026), arXiv:2504.07258.
E. T. Hockings, A. C. Doherty, and R. Harper, Improving error suppression with noise-aware decoding, arXiv:2502.21044.
E. T. Hockings, QuantumACES.jl: design noise characterisation experiments for quantum computers, Journal of Open Source Software 10, 7707 (2025).
E. T. Hockings, A. C. Doherty, and R. Harper, Scalable noise characterisation of syndrome extraction circuits with averaged circuit eigenvalue sampling, PRX Quantum 6, 010334 (2025), arXiv:2404.06545.
Y. Li, R. P. Sabatini, S. K. K. Prasad, E. T. Hockings, T. W. Schmidt, and G. Lakhwani, Improved optical confinement in ambipolar field-effect transistors toward electrical injection organic lasers, Applied Physics Letters 119, 163303 (2021).