Rate My Professor Liam Quinn

Liam Quinn is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland. He holds a BSc(Hons) and a PhD. Quinn joined the Dodd-Walls Centre in 2020 and is based at the University of Auckland. His doctoral research examined protected polarization symmetry breaking in Kerr resonators for random number generation and photonic Ising machines. His work centers on the experimental and computational study of nonlinear optics, with emphasis on passive fiber resonators and the development of optical computing technologies such as coherent Ising machines and all-optical random number generators.

Quinn has contributed to research on optimizing polarization symmetry-breaking in nonlinear resonators. In 2026 he co-authored a paper published in Nature Communications on a coherent Ising machine based on polarization symmetry breaking in a Kerr resonator, in collaboration with colleagues including Professors Stéphane Coen and Miro Erkintalo.