CV

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Employment History

• Defence Science & Technology Group    Mar. 2005 – Present
  Defence Research Scientist
  • Working in support of the Australian Collins Class Submarines
    and the Future Submarine Program
• 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 2^nd and 3^rd 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

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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 1^st Class)
  • Double major in mathematics & statistics and applied computational physics
  • Received Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence
  • Received prizes for being the top 3^rd 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

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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.

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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

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Computer Skills

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