About Me

Hi, and welcome to my website! My name is Aidan Sims and I'm currently a Forward Deployed Engineer at Scale AI. Previously, I was at Cornell University, where I received a M.Eng. in Engineering Physics and a B.A. in Computer Science (with a minor in Business). I received the Henri S. Sack Memorial Award for best academic performance by a Engineering Physics Master's student.

At Cornell, I was a member of Mark Wilde's Quantum Information Science research group, where I worked on quantum algorithms. I led a collaboration with the R-Lab from UC Davis where we developed two quantum algorithms to simulate the dynamics of a cavity QED model called the Open Tavis-Cummings model.

I've gained practical software engineering experience through prior internships at Capital One and AstraZeneca. At Capital One, I worked in the commercial banking division, developing backend Python algorithms for an internal tool which analyzes large, complex cash management reporting files. At AstraZeneca, I worked on a tool which tracks shipments of their rare disease treatments to patients across the world.

In my free time, I enjoy cooking, playing tennis, watching baseball and tennis, and weightlifting. Feel free to check out my resume in the top right corner and reach out through email or LinkedIn.

Research / Publications

Digital Quantum Simulations of the Non-Resonant Open Tavis–Cummings Model, with Mark M. Wilde, Marina Radulaski, Dhrumil Patel, Aby Philip, Alex Rubin, Rahul Bandyopadhyay.
Physical Review Research 7, 043302 (2025).
DOI: 10.1103/yflv-3s7t
arXiv:2501.18522 [quant-ph]

CVXQuad in Python: Received a Unitary Foundation grant to port a series of functions related to quantum entropies and the matrix logarithm to Python. Expanded the scope in Python to cover more recently discovered SDP formulations including one for channel relative entropy.

Open-source repos I've contributed to: toqito, cuda-quantum, PauliPropagation.jl, PauliStrings.jl, qlasskit, piquasso, PauLie.

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