Jacky Jiang
I am a Master's student at the University of British Columbia in the QSAR group, where I work with talented people to pioneer particle physics simulations on quantum computers.
Previously, I was the founding researcher of Verdi Expeditions, where I applied computation to enhance agricultural productivity.
“Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring."
- Carl Sagan
"If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. That's all there is to it."
- Richard P. Feynman
Email: jacky.j@alumni.ubc.ca Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
Office: KAIS 4065
Master's Student
Last modified: October 17, 2025.
2024 - 2025
MASc at the University of British Columbia (
QSAR group), where I worked with
Olivia Di Matteo (advisor) and
Natalie Klco to simulate quantum field theories on quantum computers. I remain an advisor and advocate for Verdi Expeditions

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2020 - 2023
The founding researcher of
Verdi Expeditions, where I led the development of the world's first
variable-rate drip irrigation (VRDI) system. My engineering activities spanned from low-power electronics, firmware for maximizing utility, network for supporting large deployments, and medium-scale manufacturing, to data analysis and system modeling. The goal is to enable computation on farms at all levels, be it hardware, edge or cloud. We went through the
Alchemist Accelerator, were semi-finalists at
TechCrunch Disrupt, and save over 30 million liters of water annually. We've since expanded into a climate-adaptation platform.
If you can help us, please
reach out. The world needs this technology.
2016 - 2019
BASc at the University of British Columbia, where I majored in Electrical Engineering and minored in Physics. Got interested in computation & physics (as separate subjects). Explored these topics through 3 internships:
UBC System-on-a-Chip Lab, Intel NSG (now
Solidigm), and
Delta-Q. I made a 50x cheaper-than-off-the-shelf
microfluidic flowsensor for the
UBC BioMEMS Lab using optimization algorithms and the behaviour of heat + microscale fluids. Other notables: built my first turing-complete cpu and ran my first (tridiagonal) physics simulation.