Shelly Garion
Research Staff Member at IBM
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolShelly Garion is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research Israel with seven years of experience bridging deep mathematical theory and practical quantum software development. A mathematician by training (PhD) and a former postdoctoral fellow at leading European institutes, she now contributes core back-end features and Clifford-group synthesis to the widely used open-source Qiskit SDK and authors educational Qiskit tutorials. Her background in big-data operational analytics and machine learning for cloud storage gives her a rare combination of scalable engineering and rigorous algorithmic expertise. She has a long track record of clean, refactoring-focused contributions—improving quantum circuit primitives, noise-characterization tooling, and documentation—that make sophisticated quantum techniques more accessible. Colleagues benefit from her experience mentoring teams in both academic and defense research environments and her habit of turning abstract algebraic insights into reliable software.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Leo-Beck High school, HaifaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics at The Hebrew University
English, Hebrew, German, French
Github Skills (8)
circuit10
user-manual10
quantum-computing10
jupyter-notebook10
develop10
qiskit10
python10
documentation10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
qiskit-community/qiskit-ignis
Feb 2019 - May 2021
Ignis (deprecated) provides tools for quantum hardware verification, noise characterization, and error correction.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 67 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Shelly primarily updated and cleaned code within the `qiskit-ignis` repository, specifically focusing on the `randomized_benchmarking` module. The commits involved modifications to existing Python files, including adjustments to the `BinaryVector.py`, `rb_fitters.py`, and `randomizedbenchmarking.py` files. These updates included code cleaning, adding comments to increase readability, and changing gate names to align with the current version of Qiskit.
error-correctionhardware
Qiskit/qiskit
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:972 reviews, 17 commits, 157 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Shelly primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the Qiskit library, focusing on the implementation of Clifford templates, improved Clifford synthesis methods, and the integration of new gates such as CS, CSdg, and CCZ within the CNOTDihedral class. Their work involved significant code modifications, including refactoring, and the addition of new classes and methods. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on core quantum information processing and circuit manipulation within the Qiskit ecosystem.
qiskitsource-sdkquantum-computingsdkquantum-programming-language
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