A Short Biography
Ian Glendinning studied
Physics at the
University of Manchester, where he
was awarded a Ph.D. in experimental
High Energy Particle
Physics in 1986. His first professional position was with
Software Sciences Ltd. as a programmer, from 1983-85, and after he obtained
his Ph.D., he began work as a research fellow at the
Concurrent Computation Group
of the University of Southampton, where he remained until 1988, when he took
up a position with Fidelio Software GmbH in Munich, Germany. In 1990 he
returned to the the Concurrent
Computation Group at the University of Southampton, where during 1993 he
served as a member of the MPI Forum.
In 1995 he took up a position at
VCPC within the
University of Vienna, as a consultant
specialising in tools for parallel programming, in particular the
MPI Message Passing Interface.
In 2000 Ian became interested in
quantum computing, and together
with Bernhard Ömer, he
implemented a
parallel version of the QC-lib quantum computer simulator library. He
subsequently became interested in the simulation of quantum computers in the
presence of errors and noise, in order to investigate the effectiveness of
techniques to protect against their effects, and implemented a program to
model the Non-Markovian
thermalization of entangled qubits, In 2009 he began to work
on applying concepts from quantum information to image processing algorithms,
together with
AIT.
Last updated on
Oct 01 2009 at 01:03
by Ian Glendinning