Category: career
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Cheers to America — my new permanent home
I recently became a permanent resident of the US. I now have a green card! I always thought the term “green card” was an expression of the idea that you have a green light to stay, but it turns out that there is indeed an identification card, and it is green. It’s a pretty significant…
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(Unactionable -> Actionable) advice for new QIS grads interested in working in the quantum industry
I want to start this post by telling you about a conversation that happened in my first year of graduate school. The coursework during that year was particularly challenging for me because I hadn’t encountered condensed matter physics and quantum mechanics in my undergraduate studies. I’d seen small snippets of these in my semiconductor physics…