RQS.UMD.EDU - Key Persons
Alexey Gorshkov is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Physics and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland. He is also a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science and the Joint Quantum Institute. Gorshkov leads a theoretical research group working at the interface of quantum information science, quantum optics, atomic and molecular physics, and condensed matter physics. He received his doctorate in physics from Harvard University in 2010.
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- Assistant Professor
- Co - PI
- Co - PI, University of Maryland
Alicia Kollár is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and an affiliate assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. She is also a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute. Kollár leads a research group that focuses on using novel coplanar waveguide lattice techniques and graph theory to design and realize microwave photonic crystals with unusual structures such as gapped flat bands and spatial curvature. They plan to combine these structures with multimode/waveguide circuit QED to engineer quantum simulators of lattice and spin models. She received her doctorate in applied physics from Stanford University in 2016.
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- Director & PI
- Director & PI, University of Maryland
- Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland
Andrew Childs is a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland and is the director of the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation. He also serves as co-director of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. His main research interests are in the theory of quantum information processing, especially quantum algorithms. Childs received his doctorate in physics from MIT in 2004.
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- Senior Investigator
- Professor
- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
Andrew Elby is a professor in the Department of Teaching & Learning, Policy & Leadership and an affiliate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland. His research interests include student and teacher epistemologies, physics and engineering education, and elementary school teacher professional development. Elby received his doctorate in philosophy of physics from UC Berkeley in 1995.
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- Senior Investigator
- Professor
- Senior Investigator, Princeton University
Andrew Houck is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Fellow in the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University. He leads a research group that investigates new fronts in superconducting quantum computing and quantum simulation. Houck received his doctorate in physics from Harvard University in 2005.
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- Senior Investigator
- Distinguished University Professor
- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
Chris Jarzynski is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Physics and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland. He is also a member of the Institute for Physical Science & Technology. Jarzynski leads a research group that focuses on statistical mechanics and thermodynamics at the molecular level, with a particular emphasis on far-from-equilibrium phenomena. He received his doctorate in physics from UC Berkeley in 1994.
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- Senior Investigator, Duke University
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- Senior Investigator
- Brin Family Endowed Professor
- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
Daniel Gottesman is the Brin Family Endowed Professor in Theoretical Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland. He is also a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. Gottesman's research focuses on quantum computation and quantum information. He works in the sub-fields of quantum error correction, fault-tolerant quantum computation, quantum cryptography and quantum complexity. He received his doctorate in physics from Caltech in 1997.
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- Senior Investigator
- Professor
- Senior Investigator, Princeton University
David Huse is a professor in the Department of Physics at Princeton University. His research focuses on statistical physics, phase transitions, quantum many-body physics of ultracold atoms, many-body localization, magnetic ordering in materials and in spin models, superconductivity, and out of equilibrium quantum dynamics. Huse received his doctorate in physics from Cornell University in 1983.
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- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
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- Education and Outreach Coordinator, UMD
- Education and Outreach Coordinator, University of Maryland
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- Assistant Director for Education, University of Maryland
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- Senior Investigator, North Carolina State University
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- Senior Investigator
- Professor and Associate Department Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina State University
- Senior Investigator, North Carolina State University
Greg Byrd is a professor and associate department head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. His primary research is in the areas of quantum computing and high-performance parallel systems. Byrd is interested in mechanisms that reduce communication overhead in parallel and distributed systems. Other areas of interest include computer architecture, network processing, service-oriented computing and network security. Byrd received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1998.
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- Adjunct Professor
- Associate Director for Diversity and Inclusion
- Associate Director for Diversity and Inclusion, University of Maryland / National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gretchen Campbell is an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and co-director of the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland. She is also a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Campbell's research group is conducting two experiments: one on sodium atom circuits and another on ultracold strontium. Both experiments use ultracold atomic gases to study many-body physics. She received her doctorate in physics from MIT in 2007.
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- Senior Investigator, Duke University
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- Senior Investigator, North Carolina State University
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- Associate Director for Research, RC2 Co - Lead, University of Maryland / National Institute of Standards and Technology
Iman Marvian is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Physics at Duke University. He is also a member of the Duke Quantum Center. Marvian's research focuses on quantum information and computation theory. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Waterloo in 2012.
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- Co - PI, Princeton University
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- Co - PI, RC1 Co - Lead
- Co - PI, RC1 Co - Lead, Duke University
- Professor
Kenneth Brown is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an associate professor of physics at Duke University. He is also a member of the Duke Quantum Center. Brown leads a research group that uses the properties of quantum systems to build quantum information devices and sensors. He received his doctorate in chemistry from UC Berkeley in 2003.
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- Director of Operations, UMD
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- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
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- Assistant Professor
- Senior Investigator
- Senior Investigator, Duke University
Marko Cetina is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and a member of the Duke Quantum Center at Duke University. An atomic, molecular and optical physicist, he has used his wide-ranging research in light, lasers and atoms to both explore the basic physics of quantum phenomena and support the development of improved technology necessary for today's leading quantum machines. Cetina received his doctorate in physics from MIT in 2011.
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- Associate Professor
- Senior Investigator
- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
Mohammad Hafezi is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland. He leads a research group that aims to theoretically and experimentally investigate various quantum properties of light-matter interaction for applications in future optoelectronic devices, quantum information processing, and sensing. Hafezi received his doctorate in physics from Harvard University in 2009.
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- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
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- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
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- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland / National Institute of Standards and Technology
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- Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Duke
Norbert Linke is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Duke University. He leads a research group that works with trapped atomic ions on different applications in quantum physics. These include quantum information processing, in particular the implementation of quantum algorithms and enhancing the power of quantum computers with machine learning techniques, the simulation of interesting quantum phenomena, and quantum networking with entangled near-telecom ion-photons. Linke received his doctorate in atomic and laser physics from the University of Oxford in 2013.
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- Senior Investigator
- Director of the Information Initiative at Duke University
- Senior Investigator, Duke University
Robert Calderbank is director of the Information Initiative at Duke University, where he is a professor of electrical engineering, computer science and mathematics. He is also a member of the Duke Quantum Center. Calderbank's research interests lie in error control codes for quantum computing, wireless communication and the internet of things, coding theory for computer architecture, signal processing and machine learning. He received his doctorate in mathematics from Caltech in 1980.
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- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
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- Senior Investigator, Yale University
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- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
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- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland / National Institute of Standards and Technology
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- Senior Investigator
- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland / National Institute of Standards and Technology
Victor Albert is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Physics and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland. He is also a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. Albert enjoys pursuing the broad area of quantum science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, with topics ranging from superconducting circuits to molecular physics. He received his doctorate in physics from Yale University in 2017.
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- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
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- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
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- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland / National Institute of Standards and Technology
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- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland
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- Senior Investigator
- Co - Director of the Joint Center for Quantum Information
- Senior Investigator, University of Maryland / National Institute of Standards and Technology
Yi-Kai Liu is co-director of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science and an adjunct associate professor in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland. He is also a staff scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Liu's research focuses on quantum computation and theoretical computer science, in particular, quantum algorithms and complexity, quantum state tomography, machine learning and quantum cryptography. He received his doctorate in computer science from UC San Diego in 2007.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Director for Education
- Associate Director for Education, University of Maryland
Zohreh Davoudi is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) at the University of Maryland. She studies strongly interacting systems, such as hadrons and nuclei, using analytical and computational methods including effective field theories, lattice quantum chromodynamics, quantum simulation and quantum computing. Davoudi received her doctorate in physics from the University of Washington in 2014.