Dr. Gurpreet Kaur Gulati

I am leading a team of 9 technical officers from two different schools (School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and School of Engineering), Faculty of Science and Engineering at Macquarie University. My role is to provide specialist technical advice, support, and assistance to academic staff and students - ensuring effective and sustainable delivery of high-quality research, learning & teaching, outreach and engagement outcomes. My responsibilities include:

• Managed, and maintained technical facilities, teaching labs, research labs and laboratory assets.
• Managed and motivated team members to be productive and engaged in work.
• Setted up the team’s annual goals in their KPR, reviewing/analysing the team’s performance during one-on-one coaching sessions.
• Managed budgets effectively, ensuring optimal financial performance while investing in necessary resources.
• Maintained professional, organized, and safe environment for students and researchers by designing and improving faculty processes related to laboratory management and WHS.
• Onboarded and recruited new employees with training and new hire documentation.
• Communicated clearly with team, and stakeholders to keep everyone on same page and working toward established faculty's goals.
• Effective team management by resolving disputes promptly, maintaining open lines of communication, and ensuring high-quality service delivery.
• Resource and space development, design, allocation and planning,
• Planned and implemented strategic initiatives to benefit the school

I worked at Silicon Quantum computing company, a spinoff company, led by Prof. Michelle Simmons (Australian of the year 2018). Managed and led the research projects: Worked on building Australia’s first 10-qubit quantum computer prototype.

• Maintained and managed laboratories and essential complex equipment like cryogenic dilution refrigerators in a research

based environment.

• Procurement of essential equipment to smoothly run laboratory and managed R&D projects in partnership with

stakeholders in industry and academia.

• Documented high-level risks by doing SWOT analysis, and written SOPs, manuals, and technical reports.
• Co-supervised PhD and master’s students
• Member of WORK, HEALTH AND SAFETY (WHS) of CQC2T, UNSW: Management of health and safety of everyone in the workplace.

Worked on a time-constrained project to build a compact (< 50cc) and low-power mercury (< 200mW) ion clock for DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Project Agency, USA). Importance of the project: The deep-space missions and international space stations (ISS) are going to hugely benefitted from such onboard portable atomic clocks that can save valuable antenna usage at Deep Space Network (DSN) sites and can be extremely cost-effective. A similar atomic clock is already operating in the International Space Station.

• Initiated, designed and successfully finished the first phase of the project.
• Awarded as an outstanding performance (Team) for completing the first phase, satisfying all the metrics and pushing the project to get successful funding for the next two years from DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Project Agency, USA).
• Worked closely with a team of top-notch engineers and scientists in a competitive environment with a strict time-bound deadlines.

I was a part of Quantum Technology Hub, a collaborative initiative to unite quantum laboratories across United Kingdom to

deliver devices exploiting quantum physics for mutual benefit.

• Project management via feasibility study and strategic research development for Quantum Application
• Monitored project progress and communicated project status to the Principle Investigator via regular written reports and

meetings. Ensured project deliverables were conformed

to project scope and requirements.

• Actively participated and presented in in-house weekly group meetings, workshops initiated by Quantum hub and international conferences.
• Contributed to high-impact publications by collaborating with fellow researchers and providing critical input.