Hello! I'm
Samuel
Quinteiro Perez
Welcome to my website! I am currently a third-year student at the University of Waterloo pursuing a major
in Physics and a minor in Computing. Originally from Mississauga, Ontario, I've always had a fascination with
physics, programming, and electronics.
When I am not studying or working, I am usually listening to music and obsessing
over whatever project I am currently working on (right now its this smart watch project). Some of my hobbies are playing
guitar, skateboarding, and playing poker with friends.
I am currently working as Undergraduate Researcher at the Institute for Quantum
Computing for Bradley Hauer's Quantum Cavity Optomechanics (QCOM) Group,
where I'm researching optimal states to initialize an optomechanical system with
the goal of generating a cat state faster or with better fidelity, based on the methods described in
Nonlinear Sideband Cooling to a Cat State of Motion.
My previous co-op was as a research assistant at SNOLAB on the DEAP-3600 experiment; a dark matter detector
that uses liquid argon as the target material, being one of the most sensitive
detectors to WIMP nucleon elastic scattering. I upgraded hardware on the
detector, including the recommissioning of the detector, as well as taking data and
doing data analysis - specifically ensuring the quality of the liquid argon using
data taken over a 5 year period.
Before SNOLAB I worked for the department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering of the University of Waterloo as a Computer Support Assistant. In this
role I mostly troubleshooted and repaired computers that were having hardware issues
as well as deploying new computers to faculty and research positions, with any
necessary software installed. A highlight for me during this job was when I was
tasked to deploy ~20 Pynq FPGA development boards running Linux for a lab. I
noticed that the deployment process was repetitive so I wrote a Bash script that
automated the process and that I could remotely run on the boards, which
significantly decreased the time it took to set up the lab course.