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Alexei Bylinskii
Ph.D. candidate in Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
— Phone: 617-999-8749 — E-Mail: [email protected]
Education
• Ph.D. candidate in Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sept 2009 – Aug 2015
• Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Science (Physics option),
University of Toronto
Sept 2005 – May 2009
Research Experience
Graduate researcher, group of professor Vladan Vuletic
MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Lead the development of an experimental system of cold trapped ions in an
optical cavity for quantum information processing and for studying atomic
models of friction in an optical lattice [published in NJP 15 053001 (2013)].
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Achieved trapping and ground-state cooling of ions in an optical lattice
[published in PRL 111 163002 (2013)].
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Demonstrated atom-by-atom control of friction, then performed microscopic
studies of superlubricity [in print at Science, arXiv: 1410.4169], of velocity
and temperature dependence of friction [arXiv: 1505.01828], and observed
the long-theorized Aubry transition [manuscript in preparation].
Undergraduate research assistant, group of professor John Wei
Sept 2009 – present
May 2008 – May 2009
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award
Department of Physics, University of Toronto
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In collaboration with Academia Sinica in Taiwan, developed methods for
fabricating high-temperature superconducting nanostructures. Developed
the technique for and performed high-frequency electronic transport
measurements on these nanostructures to study the controversial pseudogap
regime of high-temperature superconductivity [see undergraduate thesis].
Undergraduate research assistant, group of Paul Delheij and Jens Dilling
TITAN group (TRIUMF’s Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear Science)
TRIUMF (Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
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Designed, built and tested the radio frequency (RF) drive system for the
TITAN Penning ion trap [work published in an internal report]. The
system was crucial for precise mass measurements of short-lived nuclei with
10-8 precision.
May 2007 – Aug 2007
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Undergraduate research assistant, group of Robert Laxdal
ISAC-II Task Force, ISAC (Isotope Separator and Accelerator)
May – Aug,
2006, 2007
TRIUMF (Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
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Helped build, launch and tune the new superconducting linear accelerator for
heavy ions (ISAC-II) [published in LINAC 2006], including testing of
superconducting RF cavities, particle beam simulations and measurements,
and commissioning and documentation of cryogenic, vacuum, beam
diagnostics and safety systems. Successful beam delivery to the first
experiment was made at the end of summer 2007.
Teaching Experience
• Supervision/mentorship of undergraduate UROP students
Sept 2009 – Dec 2014
Mentored 5 undergraduate research assistants through a number of projects,
which included developing a novel technique to narrow the linewidth of
extended-cavity diode lasers with optical feedback [published in Optics
Express 10 11592 (2014)].
• Big-data analysis of massive open online course data
2013
Studied student learning patterns of EdX course material via machine learning
of generative models for topics discussed in online course forums.
• Teaching assistant for the graduate Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
course (8.422) – helped develop new homework problems.
• Outreach
Spring 2013
2013, 2014
Gave lab tours to undergraduate, high-school and middle-school students
through the TOPS program and through the Cambridge Science Festival.
Made a 6-min video for SCIEX to get kids excited about research in our lab.
• Extra Help Tutor, Dept. of Engineering Science, U. of Toronto
Held weekly 2-hour drop-in tutorials in the following courses: MAT190 Linear
Algebra, PHY190 Relativity, PHY292 Statistical Mechanics, CHE218 Reaction
Kinetics.
Sept 2007 – April 2008
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Publications
• Alexei Bylinskii*, Dorian Gangloff*, Ian Counts, Wonho Jhe and Vladan Vuletic, "Observation
of the superlubricity-breaking Aubry transition in a few-ion frictional contact with an optical
lattice." - manuscript in preparation
2015
• Dorian Gangloff*, Alexei Bylinskii*, Ian Counts, Wonho Jhe and Vladan Vuletic, "Velocity
tuning of friction with two trapped atoms," submitted, arXiv: 1505.01828
2015
• Alexei Bylinskii*, Dorian Gangloff* and Vladan Vuletic, "Tuning friction atom-by-atom in an
ion-crystal simulator", in print at Science, arXiv: 1410.4169
2015
• Dorian Gangloff*, Molu Shi*, Tailin Wu*, Alexei Bylinskii, Boris Braverman, Michael
Gutierrez, Rosanna Nichols, Junru Li, Kai Aichholz, Marko Cetina, Leon Karpa, Branislav
Jelenkovic, Isaac Chuang, and Vladan Vuletic, "Preventing and Reversing Vacuum-induced
Optical Losses in High-Finesse Tantalum (V) Oxide Mirror Coatings," submitted, arXiv:
1505.03381
2015
• Amira M Eltony, Dorian Gangloff, Molu Shi, Alexei Bylinskii, Vladan Vuletic, Isaac L Chuang,
"Technologies for trapped-ion quantum information systems", under review at Springer
Special Issue on Trapped Ion Quantum Information Processing, arXiv:1502.05739
2015
• Polnop Samutpraphoot, Sophie Weber, Qian Lin, Dorian Gangloff, Alexei Bylinskii, Boris
Braverman, Akio Kawasaki, Christoph Raab, Wilhelm Kaenders, and Vladan Vuletic,
"Passive intrinsic-linewidth narrowing of ultraviolet extended-cavity diode laser by weak
optical feedback", Optics Express 10 11592 (2014)
2014
• L. Karpa*, A. Bylinskii*, D. Gangloff*, M. Cetina and V. Vuletic, "Suppression of Ion
Transport due to Long-Lived Subwavelength Localization by an Optical Lattice", Physical
Review Letters 111, 163002 (2013)
à Highlighted in a Viewpoint article in Physics 6, 113 (2013)
2013
• M. Cetina, A. Bylinskii, L. Karpa, D. Gangloff, K. M. Beck, Y. Ge, M. Scholz, A. T. Grier, I.
Chuang, and V. Vuletic, "One-dimensional array of ion chains coupled to an optical
cavity", New Journal of Physics 15 053001 (2013)
2013
• A. Bylinskii, “Design of an Experiment to Probe the Pseudogap State in High-Tc Cuprate
Superconductors with Mesoscopic Transport”. Thesis for the Bachelor of Applied Science in
Engineering Science, University of Toronto (April 2009).
2009
• A. Bylinskii, C. Owen, (2007) “The RF system for the TITAN mass measurement Penning
trap”. TRIUMF Design Note, TRI-DN-07-24 (internal publication).
2007
• M. Marchetto, A. Bylinskii and R.E. Laxdal, “Beam dynamics studies on the ISAC II
superconducting LINAC”. Proceedings of the International Linear Accelerator
Conference (LINAC) (2006), Knoxville, USA, pp. 312-314.
2006
• A. Bylinskii, R.E. Laxdal (2006) ISAC-II Operations Manual (TRIUMF internal document).
2006
* equal contributions
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Presentations
• “Surface Physics with Ultracold Ions”, talk at the Center for Ultracold Atoms
retreat, Plymouth, NH.
• “A Trapped-Ion Simulator for Nano-friction”, poster at the International
Conference on Atomic Physics, Washington, DC.
Jan 2015
Aug 2014
• “Nano-friction between crystals of light and ions controlled via commensurability”,
student talk at the Center for Ultracold Atoms seminar, MIT
April 2014
• “Suppression of Ion Transport due to Long-Lived Localization in an Optical
Lattice Site”, talk at the APS DAMOP conference, Quebec City, Canada.
June 2013
• “Studies of correlated behavior of ions in an optical lattice”, thesis proposal talk at
the MIT Physics thesis committee meeting.
May 2013
• “Ions in Optical Lattices”, talk at the MIT Interdisciplinary Quantum Information
Science and Engineering (IQUISE) seminar.
April 2013
• “Trapping and cooling an ion in an optical lattice”, student talk at the Center for
Ultracold Atoms seminar, MIT.
Nov 2012
• “Cold ion exposed to an optical lattice”, poster at the Gordon conference on
Quantum Science, Stonehill College, MA
Aug 2012
• “A collective ion-photon interface”, poster at the Gordon conference on Atomic
Physics, Mt. Snow resort VT.
June 2011
• “Linear ion trap array coupled to an optical resonator”, poster at the Workshop on
Ion Trap Technology and Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
conference, Boulder CO
Feb 2011
• “High-frequency impedance measurements of nanostructured copper-oxide
superconductors”, talk at the Undergraduate Engineering Research Day,
University of Toronto
Aug 2008
• “RF system for the TITAN Penning trap”, talk at the TRIUMF Summer Student
Symposium, Vancouver, Canada
Aug 2007
• “ISAC-II accelerator commissioning”, talk at the TRIUMF Summer Student
Symposium, Vancouver, Canada
Aug 2006
Awards
• NSERC PGS-M and PGS-D (Canadian National graduate fellowships)
2009-2015
• NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)
2008
• NSERC Chair’s Scholar, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
2008
• Bryan Statt Prize, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
(“For Excellence in Undergraduate Experimental Physics”)
2008
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• University of Toronto Engineering Competition – 2nd place in Team Design
2007
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2006
Canadian Engineering Competition
Ontario Engineering Competition – 2nd place in Team Design
University of Toronto Engineering Competition – 1st place in Team Design
• University of Toronto Applied Science and Engineering Scholarship
2005-2006
• Canadian Millennium Excellence Award
(leadership, citizenship, innovation and academics)
2005-2006
• The Governor General’s Academic Medal
Interests
• Artificial Intelligence. What is intelligence? Can we model it and produce it artificially? To me,
these are some of the most intriguing questions. Being close to MIT's Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), I try to keep myself informed of the cutting edge
advances in the field, as well as get educated in the basics by taking courses such as Inference and
Information (6.437) and Machine Learning (6.867).
• Massive Open Online Education. I strongly believe in universal education as the foundation of
humanity's future. I see the current efforts with massive online open courseware (MOOCs), such
as EdX, to be very promising. In 2013 I was involved in these efforts through the Digital Learning
subcommittee of the Graduate Student Council at MIT. Combining this interest with my interest in
artificial intelligence, I studied student learning patterns of EdX course material via machine
learning of generative models for topics discussed in online course forums.
• Public Policy. As the enlightened way of the future, I wish governments to make scientifically
informed decisions, and in an effort to perhaps one day help facilitate communication at the interface
between policy makers and scientists, I am trying to educate myself in the realm of policy through
courses via the MIT graduate certificate program in Science, Technology and Policy.
• Adventure sports. Climbing, hiking, skiing, kayaking, scuba diving…
2005