Leigh Tyers

Leigh Tyers is a High Performance Computational Specialist at the Curtin Institute for Data Science, Curtin University, Australia. With a Master’s degree in Computational Physics and an undergraduate background in Physics and Mathematics, his expertise spans HPC, algorithm optimization, and mathematical modeling.

• Educated in Computational Physics and Mathematics
• Specializes in NISQ and quantum-inspired algorithms
• Applied HPC to geophysical data inversion at ExploreGeo

His research interests bridge machine learning, climate science, health, and remote sensing, with a focus on computationally intensive simulations and inversion techniques using platforms like the Pawsey supercomputer.

Leigh joined Curtin Institute for Data Science in March 2021, contributing to remote sensing projects while maintaining his competencies in distributed computing and statistical modeling.