Author: Yaroslav Kharkov

Yaroslav is an Applied Scientist at Amazon Braket. Yaroslav completed his PhD degree in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from University of New South Wales (Australia), where he focused on topics encompassing high-temperature superconductivity, quantum phase transitions, and topological phenomena in exotic quantum matter. After completing his PhD, Yaroslav worked as a visiting scientist at Los Alamos National Lab and as a postdoc at Joint Quantum Institute advising tech startups. At Amazon Braket, Yaroslav’s primary interests span across quantum compilation, benchmarking, applications of machine learning methods to quantum physics / computing, and GenAI. In his free time Yaroslav enjoys hiking, playing chess, reading about AI, and practicing martial arts.