I’m Martina Lee, a quantum computing PhD student at the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, and the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore. My supervisor is Assoc. Prof. David Wilkowski.
These days I work on neutral-atom quantum computing in his group at NTU / CQT. Before that I spent a year on Singapore’s first homegrown superconducting quantum computer, a 20-qubit processor at CQT: error sources, gate fidelity, crosstalk, and machine-learning methods to improve qubit readout. I also wrote an open introduction to superconducting qubits, a free course for anyone moving into the field.
Before the PhD I studied physics at NTU and graduated in 2025 with Honours (Distinction). My final-year project steered a 355 nm laser across a trapped-ion chain with two acousto-optic deflectors; around the same time I worked at KOI Foundation on Binius, sumcheck and lookup arguments. Those are still the two sides of my work: experimental physics and cryptography. In 2023 I was a research intern at CQT, on quantum cryptography, and with the University of Tennessee, where the work became a co-authored paper in the Journal of Hydrology (2024). The research page has more on each.
I’ve been into crypto since 2019, way before I studied physics. I like zero-knowledge proofs, options and trading, so the things I build tend to be about markets and privacy: Separatrix, Anneal, Agent Auction Protocol. The full list is on the projects page, and the timeline has the rest, from 2018 to now.
I write here in English and Chinese. From 2018 to 2021 I was a student journalist for Lianhe Zaobao and zbCOMMA, under Singapore Press Holdings, writing features in Chinese. Around the same time I placed in a few national Chinese writing competitions for secondary school students: sixth in the poetry writing competition (2020), bronze and a commendation in the micro-fiction competition (2020 and 2018). The older posts on this site are from those years: school, first part-time jobs, and a few poems. The blog is called High Entropy Diary.