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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Director
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is the Director of the Office of Science for the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Berhe is currently on leave from the University of California, Merced where she holds the Ted and Jan Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences and Geology; is a Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry; and previously served as Associate Dean for Graduate Education. Her research focus lies at the intersection of soil science, global change science, and political ecology with an emphasis on how the soil system regulates the earth’s climate and the dynamic two-way relationship between the natural environment and human communities.
She previously served as the Chair of the U.S. National Committee on Soil Science and member of the Board of International Scientific Organizations at the National Academies; Leadership board member for the Earth Science Women’s Network; and founding a co-principal investigator in the ADVANCEGeo Partnership – a National Science Foundation funded effort to empower scientists to respond to and prevent harassment, discrimination, bullying, and other exclusionary behaviors in research environments.
Her scholarship and efforts to ensure equity and inclusion of people from all walks of life in the scientific enterprise have received numerous awards and honors. Dr. Berhe is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; she is also a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America and a member of the inaugural class of the U.S. National Academies’ New Voices in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
Berhe received a B.Sc. in Soil and Water Conservation from the University of Asmara; an M.Sc. in Political Ecology from Michigan State University; and a Ph.D. in Biogeochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
Trina Bilal
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Minority Educational Institutions, Program Manager
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Dr. Susut has been a proactive leader with a proven track record of performance and has been recognized for her accomplishments by SC leadership and the Secretary of Energy. She has played a critical role in the growth of the emerging computing technologies portfolios within SC and in forging interdisciplinary collaborations to lower the barriers for the effective use of high-performance computing for scientific discovery. For example, Dr. Susut was instrumental to the establishment of the National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, established a platform for American industry leaders and national laboratory scientists to speak directly with Congressional staffers, and organized a series of panel discussions that showcased the productivity of public-private collaborations to accelerate emergent technologies and American leaderships in QIS. Among Dr. Susut’s many other achievements are her efforts to plan, budget, and launch cycles of the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program and boosting SciDAC’s collaboration and outreach approach to DOE communities outside the Office of Science. Dr. Susut has demonstrated outstanding leadership in championing the new and rapidly emerging opportunities and challenges presented by Artificial Intelligence (AI). She led the community to identify how unique DOE capabilities can drive progress in AI, culminating in the May 2023 release of the report AI for Science, Energy, and Security. This vision and blueprint establish the foundation for SC and DOE to further advance our missions. Additionally, Dr. Susut led efforts to integrate and build coalitions with historically excluded communities to advance engagement and expand the STEM workforce.
Dr. Susut has demonstrated tremendous leadership and we are thrilled to announce her selection as the Associate Director for ASCR. Please join me in congratulating her on this important position in the Office of Science.
Sincerely,
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
Director, Office of Science
U.S. Department of Energy
Harriet Kung
Deputy Director for Science Programs, Office of Science
U.S. Department of Energy
Juston Fontaine
Deputy Director for Operations, Office of Science
U.S. Department of Energy
Charles Tahan
Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science, Director, National Quantum Coordination Office
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Dr. Charles Tahan is the Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science (QIS) and the Director of the National Quantum Coordination Office (NQCO) within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The NQCO ensures coordination of the National Quantum Initiative (NQI) and QIS activities across the federal government, industry, and academia. Dr. Tahan is on detail from the Laboratory for Physical Sciences where he drove technical progress in the future of information technology as Technical Director. Research at LPS spans computing, communications, and sensing, from novel device physics to high-performance computer architectures. As a technical lead, Dr. Tahan stood up new research initiatives in silicon and superconducting quantum computing; quantum characterization, verification, and validation; and new and emerging qubit science and technology. As a practicing physicist, he is Chief of the intramural QIS research programs at LPS and works with students and postdocs from the University of Maryland-College Park to conduct original research in quantum information and device theory. His contributions have been recognized by the Researcher of the Year Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and as an ODNI Science and Technology Fellow.
Celia Merzbacher
QED-C, Director; SRI International
Dr. Celia Merzbacher is the QED-C Executive Director responsible for continuing to build the consortium and managing operational aspects. Previously, Dr. Merzbacher was Vice President for Innovative Partnerships at the Semiconductor Research Corporation, a consortium of the semiconductor industry. In 2003-2008, she was Assistant Director for Technology R&D in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she oversaw the establishment and coordination of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. She also served as Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Dr. Merzbacher began her career as a materials scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., where her research led to six patents and more than 50 technical publications. She has served as Chair of the National Materials and Manufacturing Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, on the Board of Directors of ANSI, as well as on advisory boards of several university research centers.
Andrew Houck
Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA, led by Brookhaven National Laboratory), Director; Princeton University, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Quantum mechanics has played an ever-increasing role in electronics over the past several decades. At first, materials and devices were introduced that were designed with quantum mechanical principles, but still operated on classical information (for example, the silicon transistor). More recently, devices have been developed to store and manipulate quantum bits of information (qubits) towards quantum computing applications. Until the past few years, however, these qubits have only been addressed with classical light signals. A fully quantum mechanical circuit, in which quantum mechanical microwave signals address quantum bits, enables scalable quantum computing architectures and makes possible a full range of quantum optics experiments, all on a single chip in an integrated circuit.
Our research focuses on these fully quantum mechanical integrated circuits, combining basic quantum mechanics, superconducting electronics, microwave circuits, quantum optics, and low-temperature measurement. The backbone of our work is a system known as circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED). This system consists of a superconducting qubit coupled to an on-chip microwave resonator; the qubit can absorb and re-emit a single photon into the cavity hundreds of times before the photon is lost. This strong coupling opens the door to a vast array of experiments in quantum computing and non-linear optics. These are the two main thrusts of my research.
First, my group is looking at ways of building a robust scalable quantum architecture. While small qubit systems have been developed and microwave cavities have been shown to make a good quantum bus connecting these qubits, large-scale quantum computers remain a distant goal. Quantum information is quite fragile, and individual qubits are currently plagued by information loss, called decoherence. Are there ways of building individual qubits that are robust to dominant noise sources? Even if perfect qubits could be achieved, new problems arise as circuits get more and more complicated. How can we wire up complex systems without destroying the individual parts? These are the types of quantum computing questions we address experimentally.
Second, we study quantum and non-linear optics. Although people tend to think of lasers when they hear the term “optics,” the oscillating voltages and currents in a microwave circuit are also photons, and all principles of quantum optics apply to these devices as well. In fact, non-linearities can be much stronger in microwave devices, allowing us access to a very interesting regime of quantum optics. The goal of this area of research is to address the central question: What happens when a system is non-linear at powers where quantization is important?
Travis Humble
Quantum Science Center (QSC, led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Director; Quantum Computing Institute at Oak Ridge, Director
Travis Humble is director of the Quantum Science Center, a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and director of the lab’s Quantum Computing Institute. Travis is leading the development of new quantum technologies and infrastructure to impact the DOE mission of scientific discovery through quantum computing. As director of the QSC, Travis leads the innovation of scalable, resilient quantum information technologies through new materials, devices, and algorithms and facilitates the transfer of quantum technologies to the broadest audience.
In addition, Travis serves as director of the OLCF Quantum Computing User Program by leading the management and operation of quantum computing technologies for a broad base of users. These revolutionary new approaches to familiar computational problems help reduce algorithmic complexity, reduce computational resource requirements like power and communication, and increase the scale at which state-of-the-art scientific applications perform. In this role, Travis leads the design, development, and benchmarking of quantum computing platforms.
Travis is editor-in-chief for ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, Associate Editor for Quantum Information Processing, and co-chair of the IEEE Quantum Initiative. Travis also holds a joint faculty appointment with the University of Tennessee Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education working with students on energy-efficient computing solutions. Travis received a doctorate in theoretical chemistry from the University of Oregon before joining ORNL in 2005.
David Awschalom
Q-NEXT (led by Argonne National Laboratory), Director; University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, Vice Dean for Infrastructure and Research; Argonne National Laboratory, Senior Scientist
David Awschalom is the Liew Family Professor and Vice Dean for Research of the Pritzker School for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, a Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, and Founding Director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange. He is also the inaugural Director of Q-NEXT, one of the US DOE Quantum Information Science Research Centers. He works in the fields of spintronics and quantum information engineering, exploring and controlling the spins of electrons, nuclei, and photons in semiconductors and molecules. His research includes implementations of information processing with potential applications in quantum computing, communication, and sensing.
Professor Awschalom received his BSc in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his PhD in experimental physics from Cornell University. He was a research staff member and manager of the Nonequilibrium Physics Department at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. In 1991 he joined the University of California-Santa Barbara as a professor of physics, and in 2001 was additionally appointed as a professor of electrical and computer engineering. Prior to joining PME, he served as the Peter J. Clarke Professor and Director of the California NanoSystems Institute, and director of the Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation.
Professor Awschalom received the American Physical Society Oliver Buckley Prize and Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, the European Physical Society Europhysics Prize, the Materials Research Society David Turnbull Award and Outstanding Investigator Prize, the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, the International Magnetism Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the European Academy of Sciences.
Anna Grassellino
Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center (SQMS, led by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Director; Fermilab, Senior Scientist
Areas of Expertise: Quantum Devices, Radio Frequency Superconductivity, Microwave Engineering, Materials Science, Quantum Sensing
Thrust: Technology, Science, Ecosystem
Anna Grassellino is the Director of the National Quantum Information Science SQMS Center, a Fermilab Senior Scientist and the head of the Fermilab SQMS division. Her research focuses on radio frequency superconductivity, in particular on understanding and improving SRF cavities performance to enable new applications, spanning from particle accelerators to detectors to quantum information science.
Grassellino is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the recipient of numerous awards for her pioneering contributions to SRF technology, including the 2017 Presidential Early Career Award, the 2017 Frank Sacherer Prize of the European Physical Society, the 2016 IEEE PAST Award, the 2016 USPAS prize, a DOE Early Career Award and the New Horizons in Physics Prize by the Breakthrough Foundation. She holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s of electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy.
Rick Muller
Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA, led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Director; Sandia National Laboratories, Senior Manager; Advanced Microsystems Group at Sandia, Senior Manager
Rick Muller is the QSA Center Director who manages the vision, strategy, and goals for the overall S&T program and operational plans. He is accountable for internal research efforts, ecosystem, safety, appointments, budget oversight, and integration across QSA programs and partner institutions, interactions with advisory boards, and technology transfer. He also ensures the co-design approach is used across the S&T innovation chain, across research thrusts, and is integrated into the QIS ecosystem.
Rick is currently the Senior Manager of the Advanced Microsystems Group at Sandia National Laboratories, and Project Manager for the QSCOUT testbed, an ASCR-funded testbed to provide an open platform for trapped-ion quantum computing.
Noel Blackburn
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chief Diversity Officer
Noel Blackburn is the Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Officer at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory. Blackburn oversees the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office, which supports Brookhaven's mission to deliver expertise and capabilities that drive scientific breakthroughs and innovation. The office works with members of the Lab community to foster an environment in which all people are welcomed, respected, and valued for the diverse perspectives they provide.
Previously, Blackburn managed university programs and DOE internships in the Lab's Office of Educational Programs, which he joined in 2004. He was responsible for an annual budget of $4.3 million to design, implement, and manage workforce development programs for undergraduates, graduate students, and university faculty.
Blackburn had a leading role in helping Brookhaven establish and strengthen relationships with more than 75 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and minority-serving institutions (MSIs). Under his leadership, college-level internship participation at Brookhaven grew exponentially and, in the most recent 10 years, has averaged 45 percent women and 38 percent underrepresented minorities (URMs) in science. He created opportunities for underrepresented groups to access Brookhaven and other DOE national laboratories through programs such as the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Research and Educational Access in Science and Engineering (InCREASE).
An engineer by training, Blackburn arrived at Brookhaven in 1999. He was a project engineer for the Peconic River Remediation Project. He also served as a field engineer for groundwater and soil remediation projects before shifting his focus to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education programs.
Blackburn received numerous awards, including Long Island Business News' Diversity in Business Award, the DOE Outstanding Mentor Award, a Brookhaven pinnacle award, and the Minority Access National Role Model Award.
Denise Ruffner
Diversity in Quantum, President and Co-Founder
Our members enjoy access to resources geared towards giving them a voice and say in the wider QIS community, as well as opportunities to collaborate & network, and have fun with fellow female quantum academics, students, entrepreneurs, investors and government representatives.
Thomas Searles
University of Illinois Chicago, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thomas A. Searles currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago, hired under the University of Illinois System Distinguished Faculty Recruitment Program. This past year (20-21), he was a Martin Luther King Visiting Professor at MIT and served as the Director of the IBM-HBCU Quantum Center. Thomas received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Rice University in 2011, where his thesis work primarily focused on the magneto-optical properties of carbon nanotubes. Upon his appointment at Howard University in the Fall of 2015, Thomas has established a new research program in applied and materials physics, which now focuses on quantum materials, metamaterials and quantum information science and engineering at UIC. In recognition for his research in light-matter interactions and his capability to train and mentor Black students in Physics and Engineering, Thomas was recently awarded the inaugural AIP-NSBP Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence and an NSF CAREER Award. Thomas graduated from Morehouse College with a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics. He is a native of Albany, GA.
Tina Brower
Howard University Center for Integrated Quantum Materials, Executive Director
Tina Louise Brower-Thomas received a BS in chemistry from Howard University a MS of Science in chemistry and PhD in materials chemistry from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. After completing a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the Naval Research Lab, Surface and Microanalysis Division, Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Tina consulted in the support of missions of The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and The Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Tina joined Howard University in 2007. At Howard, Dr. Brower-Thomas pursues research in molecular self-assembly, surface functionalization, chemical vapor deposition, and chemical intercalation of 2D materials. In addition to being research faculty in the graduate school at Howard University, she holds a visiting faculty appointment at Harvard University. Dr. Brower-Thomas is Co-PI for the NSF funded Center of Integrated Quantum Materials (CIQM) where she is the education director and investigator in the 2D heterostructure research area. At Howard, Brower-Thomas serves as the CIQM’s executive director. Dr. Brower-Thomas is the Diversity and Inclusion co-director for the newly NSF funded Center for Quantum Networks. She also supports research thrust 3: Quantum Devices, Materials, and Fundamentals. Dr. Brower-Thomas is also a PI for the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), supporting the materials thrust. In March of 2020, Dr. Brower-Thomas was recognized by her graduate school alma mater, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, with the Women in STEM Champion Award for the Ninth Annual Women in STEM Summit. Tina is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She is also a sustaining member of the Junior League of Washington and is on the board of the Mary Church Terrell House.
Megan Ivory
Sandia National Laboratories, Physicist
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Preeti Chalsani
Duality, Deputy Director; Chicago Quantum Exchange, Director of Industry Partnerships
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Antia Lamas-Linares
Amazon Web Services, AWS Center for Quantum Networking Lead
Antia leads the AWS Center for Quantum Networking. She has been involved in quantum technologies for over two decades, with much of her work centered around the efficient production and utilization of quantum entanglement. Starting with a DPhil in Quantum Optics at Oxford, she worked at the University of California Santa Barbara and then at the National University of Singapore, where she was a founding PI of the Centre for Quantum Technologies. After spending some time at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Texas at Austin, she moved to industry to develop quantum payloads for small satellites as Chief Quantum Scientist of SpeQtral, a startup based in Singapore. In January 2021 Antia joined AWS to kickstart its quantum communication and networking efforts. Her research interests include security flaws in quantum communications systems (quantum hacking) and the utilization of entanglement for secure PNT applications. You can learn more about Antia at her Amazon Science profile.
Noah Fitch
Infleqtion, Senior Physicist, Quantum Matter Portfolio Technical Lead
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Jay Lowell
Boeing, Chief Scientist for Disruptive Computing and Networks
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Steve Girvin
Yale University, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics
Dr. Girvin joined the Yale faculty in 2001, where he is Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics. From 2007 to 2017, he served as Deputy Provost for Research. In that role, he helped oversee research and strategic planning in the basic sciences and engineering across the university. He also helped oversee entrepreneurship, innovation and tech transfer at Yale. In 2017, Professor Girvin stepped down from his role as Deputy Provost to return full-time to teaching and research.
After completing his undergraduate degree in physics from Bates College, Dr. Girvin earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University and Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. He went on to work as a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 1979 to 1987, before joining the faculty of Indiana University in 1987.
Throughout his career, Professor Girvin’s research has focused on theoretical studies of quantum many-particle systems. Since coming to Yale, his interests have moved to atomic physics, quantum optics and quantum computation. Professor Girvin’s academic research is currently focused on ‘circuit QED,’ the quantum physics of microwave electrical circuits using superconducting Josephson junctions as artificial atoms coupled to individual microwave photons. He works closely with the experimental team at Yale led by Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf developing circuit QED into a practical architecture for construction of a quantum computer. A particular current interest is quantum error correction using bosonic codes.
In recognition of his research and contributions to the field, Dr. Girvin has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. In 2007, he and his collaborators, Allan H. MacDonald and James P. Eisenstein, were awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society, “For fundamental experimental and theoretical research on correlated many-electron states in low dimensional systems.” In 2017, Professor Girvin received an honorary degree from Chalmers University of Technology in recognition of his work co-developing circuit QED.
Florent Lecocq
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Physicist
Florent Lecocq is a research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, in the Advanced Microwave Photonics group. The group focuses on developing technologies for quantum measurements and quantum information science using superconducting circuits. This includes the development of high-speed parametric qubit gates, nonreciprocal parametric amplifiers, microwave opto-mechanical devices and microwave-to-optical interconnects. Florent received his PhD in physics from the University of Grenoble and the Néel Institute before joining NIST in 2011.
Gabe Perdue
Fermilab, Senior Scientist
I work on quantum information science, and quantum computing for machine learning and simulation in particular. I also study machine learning in science and am currently studying the problem of accelerator control with reinforcement learning.
Previously, I’ve worked in neutrino scattering (on the MINERvA experiment and in the GENIE collaboration) and on flavor physics (rare kaon decays).
Bert de Jong
Quantum Systems Accelerator, Deputy Director; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Senior Scientist and Applied Computing for Scientific Discovery Group Lead
Bert de Jong leads the Applied Computing for Scientific Discovery Group, which advances scientific computing by developing and enhancing applications in key disciplines, as well as developing tools and libraries for addressing general problems in computational science. He currently serves as the Department Head for Computational Sciences.
de Jong is the deputy director of the Quantum Systems Accelerator, which is part of the National Quantum Initiative. In addition,de Jong is the team director of the Accelerated Research for Quantum Computing (ARQC) Team AIDE-QC, funded by DOE ASCR, focused on developing software stacks, algorithms, and computer science and applied mathematics solutions for chemical sciences and other fields on near-term quantum computing devices. He is also a co-PI on the ARQC team FAR-QC (led out of Sandia). He is the LBNL lead for the BES QIS project (led out of PNNL), where he is focusing on new approaches for encoding wave functions and embedding quantum systems. Prior to this, de Jong was the director of the LBNL Quantum Algorithms Team QAT4Chem.
de Jong is a co-PI within the DOE ASCR Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as the LBNL lead for the NWChemEx effort, contributing to the development of an exascale computational chemistry code. He is the LBNL lead for the Basic Energy Sciences SPEC Computational Chemistry Center (led out of PNNL), where he is working on reduced scaling MCSCF and beyond GW approaches for molecules.
de Jong is a co-PI on a DOE BES Rare Earth Project and a DOE BES carbon capture from air project, where he focuses on using machine learning and computational chemistry to discover new materials for rare earth separation, and designing new molecular crystals for carbon dioxide adsorption. He leads an effort on machine learning for chemical sciences, focused on developing deep learning networks (GANs and autoencoders) for the prediction of structure-function relationships and is developing approaches for inverse design. As part of this effort, his team developed the ML4Chem Python package.
In 2020 de Jong was elected as a Fellow of the AAAS.
de Jong publication record, citations and H-index can be found on Google Scholar or Publons. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief for the IOP journal Electronic Structure, and a Principal Editor for Computer Physics Communications.
Prior to joining Berkeley Lab, de Jong was with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). There he led the High-Performance Software Development Group responsible for NWChem at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a national scientific user facility providing integrated experimental and computational resources for environmental molecular science research. de Jong earned his doctorate in theoretical chemistry in 1998 from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He earned his master’s in chemistry from the University of Groningen in 1993 and his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Technical College of Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, in 1990. He was a postdoctoral fellow at PNNL before transitioning to a staff member in 2000.
Shruti Puri
Yale University, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics
Shruti received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 2014 after which she conducted postdoctoral research at University of Sherbrooke from 2014-2017 and at Yale University from 2017-2020. Her research centers around the theory of quantum information processing, quantum optics, quantum control of open quantum systems, quantum error correction, and quantum algorithms.
Charlotte Evans
Sandia National Laboratories, Staff Scientist
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Beatriz Yankelevich
MIT, Graduate Research Fellow
Beatriz Yankelevich is a graduate research fellow in the Engineering Quantum Systems Group, researching waveguide quantum electrodynamics. Beatriz graduated from Stanford in 2021 with a B.S. in Engineering Physics. At Stanford, she conducted research on molecular graphene with Prof. Hari Manoharan. From 2021-2022, Beatriz worked as a quantum engineering intern at Rigetti Computing and collaborated with the group of Prof. Marko Loncar at Harvard to integrate transduction technologies with superconducting qubits.
Beatriz is supported by an MIT Presidential Fellowship.
Carl Miller
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Mathematician
Carl A. Miller works in the Cryptographic Technologies Group at NIST and is also a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information Computer Science (QuICS) at the University of Maryland. Dr. Miller specializes in quantum cryptography. Before coming to NIST he worked as a postdoc and research fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Corban Tillemann-Dick
Maybell Quantum, Founder and CEO
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Gustavo Cancelo
Fermilab, Senior Electronic Engineer and Scientist
I have made contributions to signal processing, nonlinear control theory, data acquisition systems, neural networks, FPGA design and hardware implementation of digital and analog systems. I have prolific experience in detectors for high energy physics and cosmology, mathematical modeling, simulations, and electronics. I have led international collaborations and projects in detectors for cosmology and accelerators for high energy physics. Since 2010 I have led projects for cosmology detectors using CCDs for dark matter and MKIDs (superconducting microwave kinetic inductance detectors) for dark energy. I have given conference presentations and invited lectures at most US National Laboratories and Universities in Germany, Italy, Argentina, and Brazil. I am a member of the Engineering Policy Committee at Fermilab; I am a reviewer of the US Department of Energy for grants and projects; I am also an expert in superconducting detectors and electronics for cosmology.
Phil Smith
Q-NEXT, Technology Integration Manager; Argonne National Laboratory, Strategic Programs Manger
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Hannah Adams
Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center and Fermilab, Communications and Partnership Manager
As a science communicator and visual artist, Hannah manages internal and external communications for SQMS. She loves writing and communicating about the work SQMS is doing (and hates talking about herself). Outside of work you can find her caring for her houseplant collection or exploring Chicagoland.
Karen Kniep
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Senior STEM Ed Consultant
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Sherri Chandler
Howard University, Program Manager
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Andy Wingstrom
Infleqtion, Senior Manager for Talent Acquisition
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Ezunial (Eze) Burts
Duality, Director
In this role, he serves as the director for Duality—overseeing all aspects of program operations, providing a full spectrum suite of services and critical venture support resources to position quantum startup companies for success. He leads Duality’s financial strategy, performance, donor stewardship, and long-range business planning. He is also responsible for cultivating strategic relationships with key partners, mentors, venture capitalists, corporations, and other stakeholders.
Jennifer Choy
University of Wisconsin–Madison, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Quantum sensing uses the interactions between discrete electronic energy levels of quantum systems (including atoms, ions, or atomic-scale defects in solids) and their environment to precisely and sensitively measure physical quantities such as time, inertial motion, magnetic fields, and temperature. Prof. Jen Choy’s research focuses on the development of quantum sensing platforms and the application of nanoscale optics, photonics, and mechanics to improve the utility and performance of quantum sensors. Her research group will study and engineer light-matter interactions and coherence properties relevant to sensing in two material platforms: cooled neutral atoms and solid-state quantum emitters (e.g., color centers in diamond and silicon carbide). This interdisciplinary research program will involve experimental atomic physics and optics, multi-physics modeling, materials development, and nanofabrication, and is intended to enable practical implementation of quantum instruments in precision navigation systems, clocks, and electromagnetic field and environmental sensors.
Prior to joining UW-Madison, Jen was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA, where she developed atomic and optical inertial sensors, and served as technical director on Draper’s contribution to DARPA’s Chip-scale Combinatorial Atomic Navigator (C-SCAN) program. Jen received her S.B. degrees in Physics and Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007, and her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 2013.
Jessica Barbosa Martins
Argonne National Laboratory, Postdoctoral Appointee
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Eduardo Mucciolo
University of Central Florida, Professor of Physics
Dr. Mucciolo received his PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. He spent two years as a Postdoc Research Fellow at NORDITA in Denmark and was an Assistant Professor in Department of Physics and PUC-RJ in Brazil between 1996 and 2002. After a sabbatical leave at Duke University, he joined UCF in December of 2003. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Hans Johnson
Illinois Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Candidate
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Sam Stein
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Staff Scientist
Sam Stein obtained his MS in Data Science from Fordham University in New York. His research focused on topics such as Quantum Deep Learning, a Quantum Machine Learning Framework, and Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks. He joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in May 2021. He is a Quantum Algorithms and Machine Learning research associate within the High Performance Computing group, with a focus on traversing the noisy intermediate-scale quantum-era through algorithm development.
Olivia Liebman
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. Student
Olivia is a Phd student in the materials science department at UCLA. She completed her B.S. in physics from UCLA in 2015, and her master’s degree in materials science from the University Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2019. Her master’s thesis utilized ab initio simulation techniques, including density functional theory and many body perturbation theory via the GW method, to study the optical and electronic properties of bulk silver. Olivia’s current interests lie within the realm of condensed matter theory and topological materials. The emphasis of her PhD work focuses on how nonlinear axion electrodynamics can be realized in topological materials, and she hopes to uncover an axion signature that can be realized for experimental detection.
Israel Hernandez
Illinois Institute of Technology, Research Assistant
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Ashley Blackwell
University of Illinois Chicago, Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Student
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Poolad Imany
Icarus Quantum Inc., Founder and CEO; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Postdoctoral Associate
Poolad's research is focused on semiconductor quantum dots for quantum networking technologies. He is currently working on microwave-to-optical quantum transduction and deterministic generation of single and entangled photons.
Sophia Economou
Virginia Tech, Professor of Physics
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Angela Kelly
Stony Brook University, Professor of Physics and Science Education
Dr. Kelly collaborates with faculty from the Department of Physics & Astronomy, the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences. She has also designed and taught physics, quantum information science & technology, chemistry, and engineering outreach programs for urban secondary students and teachers through the Bronx Institute, the New York Hall of Science, and the American Museum of Natural History.
Alex Ruichao Ma
Purdue University, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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Vivien Zapf
Quantum Science Center, Deputy Director; National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, Scientist
Educational Background
Director's-funded post-doc, Los Alamos National Lab 2004-2006
Post-doctoral fellow, California Institute of Technology 2003-2004
Ph.D. in Physics, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2003
Advisor: Prof. Brian Maple, Experimental Condensed Matter Science
M.S. in Physics, University of California at San Diego, 2000
B.S. in Physics with Computer Science, summa cum laude, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, 1997
Research Interests
Multiferroics and magnetoelectrics
Quantum Magnetism
Quantum Information
Professional Experience
Scientist, NHMFL Pulsed FIeld Facility, Los Alamos National Lab 2006-present
Science team leader, NHMFL Pulsed FIeld Facility, Los Alamos National Lab
Awards, Honors, and Service
Subject area lead, Quantum Spin Liquids, "Quantum Science Center" Department of Energy Quantum information Sciences center (2020)
American Physical Society Outstanding Referee (2019)
Chair line, American Physical Society Division of Material Physics (2019)
Fellow of the American Physical Society (2018)
Thrust leader, "Molecular Magnetic Quantum Materials" Energy Frontier Research Center (2018)
Distinguished Performance Award, Los Alamos National Lab (2012)
2010 Lee-Osheroff-Richardson Prize (2010)
Director's Funded Post-doctoral Fellowship, LANL (2004
) Millikan Post-doctoral Prize Fellowship, Caltech (2003)