Tyler moved to Brisbane in 2015 to study a Bachelor of Advanced Science majoring in physics at UQ. He became interested in conducting his honours research in the field of superconducting qubits and decided to pursue an opportunity with the SQD lab. He completed a project investigating the effects of inducing rapid qubit dynamics during measurement in 2018. He joined the lab as as PhD student in 2020 to continue his research in superconducting quantum circuits