CV

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Employment History

  • Defence Science & Technology Group    Mar. 2005 – Present
    Defence Research Scientist
  • Adept Electronic Solutions    Nov. 2004 – Feb. 2005
    Scientific consultant & Programmer

    • Extended the development of an Online Ore Sizing System,
      a non-contact vision inspection system used to automatically determine the size distribution of ore on a conveyor
  • University of Cambridge    Oct. 2002 – Oct. 2004
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Quantum Information Science

    • Investigated the fundamental concept of quantum entanglement
    • Lectured to 2nd and 3rd year Cambridge computer science students
    • Collaborated with researchers at MIT and CalTech in USA
    • Presented work at a number of national and international conferences
  • University of Queensland    1999 – 2002
    Teaching Assistant

    • Wrote tutorials for both physics and engineering students
    • Managed a team of ten tutors
    • Marked examination questions for over 600 engineering and physics students
  • Murdoch University    1997 – 1998
    Undergraduate Tutor

    • Mathematics tutor in a number of undergraduate courses
  • Wesley College    1994 – 1997
    Secondary School Tutor

    • Tutored a wide range of year levels in both mathematics and physics

Education

  • University of Queensland    1999 – 2002
    PhD, Physics (Small scale quantum algorithms)
    • The field of quantum computation is at the
      cutting-edge of modern science
    • Combined physics, computer science and mathematics
    • Procured over $80,000 in scholarships, grants and awards, including;
      • Scholarship as top PhD student coming to UQ in 1999
      • Award for best presentation at a national conference
      • Travel grant (collaborated with leading scientists at both MIT and CalTech in USA)
  • Murdoch University    1994 – 1998
    BSc (Honours 1st Class)

    • Double major in mathematics & statistics and applied computational physics
    • Received Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence
    • Received prizes for being the top 3rd year student in both physics and mathematics
  • All Saints’ College    1988 – 1993
    Secondary School

    • Graduated with straight A’s in:
      Economics, Physics, Chemistry, English Literature, Calculus, Trig & Geo
    • Obtained a scholarship to attend Murdoch University

Publications

Refereed articles and conference proceedings  –  12 papers (368 citations)

[12]
Using
a single-board microcontroller and ADC to perform real-time sonar signal
processing
.

Ben Travaglione.
In Proceedings of ACOUSTICS 2016, 2016.

[11]
High
resolution undersea acoustic data acquisition using single-board
microcontrollers
.

Ben Travaglione, Andrew Munyard, and David Matthews.
In Australian Acoustical Society Acoustics 2015 Hunter Valley,
2015.

[10]
Using
low cost single-board microcontrollers to record underwater acoustical
data
.

Ben Travaglione, Andrew Munyard, and David Matthews.
In 43rd International Congress on Noise Control Engineering,
2014.
(5 citations).

[9]
Ultra-wide sensor arcs for
low frequency sonar detection with a baffled cylindrical array
.

Derek C. Bertilone, Chaoying Bao, Ben C.
Travaglione
, and Damien S. Killeen.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
126(5):EL107-EL111, 2009.

[8]
Quantum separability
and entanglement detection via entanglement-witness search and global
optimization
.

L.M. Ioannou and B.C. Travaglione.
Physical Review A, 73(5):52314, 2006.
(quant-ph/0602223).

(20
citations)
.

[7]
Improved algorithm
for quantum separability and entanglement detection
.

LM Ioannou, BC Travaglione, D. Cheung, and AK Ekert.
Physical Review A, 70(6):60303, 2004.
(quant-ph/0403041).

(28
citations)
.

[6]
Designing and implementing
small quantum circuits and algorithms
.

Ben Travaglione.
In DAC ’03: Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation
Conference
, pages 894-899, New York, NY, USA, 2003. ACM.

[5]
Preparing encoded
states in an oscillator
.

BC Travaglione and GJ Milburn.
Physical Review A, 66(5):52322, 2002.
(quant-ph/0205114).

(18
citations)
.

[4]
Read-only-memory-based
quantum computation: Experimental explorations using nuclear magnetic
resonance and future prospects
.

DR Sypher, IM Brereton, HM Wiseman, BL Hollis, and BC 
Travaglione
.
Physical Review A, 66(1):12306, 2002.

(5
citations)
.

[3]
Rom-based computation: Quantum
versus classical
.

B.C. Travaglione, M.A. Nielsen, H.M. Wiseman, and
A. Ambainis.
Quantum Information and Computation, 2(4):324-332, 2002.
(quant-ph/0109016).

(17
citations)
.

[2]
Implementing the
quantum random walk
.

BC Travaglione and GJ Milburn.
Physical Review A, 65(3):32310, 2002.
(quant-ph/0109076).

(249
citations)
.

[1]
Generation of
eigenstates using the phase-estimation algorithm
.

BC Travaglione and GJ Milburn.
Physical Review A, 63(3):32301, 2001.
(quant-ph/0008053).

(26
citations)
.

Miscellaneous

[5]
Transmitter-receiver separation for multistatic sonar.

B.C. Travaglione and T. Forward.
Technical Note DSTO-TN-0735, Defence Science & Technology
Organisation, 2007.
(2 citations).

[4]
Effectiveness of barrier patrol patterns when using a towed array sonar.

B.C. Travaglione.
Technical Note DSTO-TN-0734, Defence Science & Technology
Organisation, 2007.

[3]
Convex separation from optimization via heuristics.

L.M. Ioannou, B.C. Travaglione, and D. Cheung.
(cs/0603089).

(1
citations)
, 2006.

[2]
A Note on Quantum Separability.

LM Ioannou and BC Travaglione.
(quant-ph/0311184).
2003.

[1]
Phase estimation as a quantum nondemolition measurement.

BC Travaglione, GJ Milburn, and TC Ralph.
(quant-ph/0203130).

(3 citations), 2002.


Scientific & Technical Skills

  • Advanced analytical, mathematical and problem solving abilities
  • Broad knowledge of physics and mathematics gained through research, teaching and tertiary education
  • Experienced at attaining funding through procurement of grants, scholarships and awards
  • Excellent communication skills developed from lecturing, tutoring, presenting seminars and collaborating with national and international researchers
  • Organizational skills developed from running courses, seminars and workshops
  • Writing skills developed from producing reports, published papers, and theses

Computer Skills

OS : Windows,
Linux,
Unix,
Chrome OS,
Android
Languages : C++,
python,
HTML,
php,
Perl,
SQL,
JavaScript,
Various BASIC dialects, …
Packages : Matlab,
Jupyter,
Mathematica,
LATEX,
Google Docs,
MS Office,
git, …