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In 1998, Nielsen received his PhD in physics from the University of New Mexico. In 2004, he was recognized as Australia's "youngest academic" and was awarded a Federation Fellowship at the University of Queensland. During this fellowship, he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Caltech, and at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. [2]
Alongside Isaac Chuang, Nielsen co-authored a popular textbook on quantum computing, [5] which has been cited more than 52,000 times as of July 2023. [6]
In 2007, Nielsen shifted his focus from quantum information and computation to “the development of new tools for scientific collaboration and publication”, [7] including the Polymath project with Timothy Gowers, which aims to facilitate "massively collaborative mathematics." [8] Besides writing books and essays, he has also given talks about open science. [9] He was a member of the Working Group on Open Data in Science at the Open Knowledge Foundation. [10]
Nielsen is a strong advocate for open science and has written extensively on the subject, including in his book Reinventing Discovery , which was favorably reviewed in Nature and named one of the Financial Times' best books of 2011. [11] [12]
In 2015 Nielsen published the online textbook Neural Networks and Deep Learning, and joined the Recurse Center as a Research Fellow for a year. [13] [14] He then joined Y Combinator Research as a Research Fellow from 2016 to 2019. [15]
In 2019, Nielsen collaborated with Andy Matuschak to develop Quantum Computing for the Very Curious, a series of interactive essays explaining quantum computing and quantum mechanics. [16] With Patrick Collison, he researched whether scientific progress is slowing down. [17]
Nielsen resides in San Francisco. [18]
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