Research Staff
Robin Blume-Kohout (Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2005) founded and co-leads the QPL. He has studied quantum computer characterization and benchmarking since 2005, with particular expertise in quantum tomography, and serves on the editorial review board for PRX Quantum.
Kevin Young (Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2010) co-leads the QPL. He is an expert in the characterization, benchmarking, and modeling of quantum computers, with special expertise in trapped-ion systems. He is a 2020 DOE Early Career Award recipient for calibration of quantum computers.
Kenneth Rudinger (Ph.D. Wisconsin, 2014) is an expert in quantum computer characterization and in applying cutting-edge performance assessment techniques to real quantum computing hardware.
Timothy Proctor (Ph.D. Leeds, 2016) leads the QPL’s research into quantum computer benchmarking methods. An expert on randomized benchmarking and time-resolved characterization of quantum computers, he is a 2022 DOE Early Career Award recipient.
Stefan Seritan (Ph.D. Stanford, 2020) is the lead developer and maintainer of pyGSTi. He is an expert in scientific software and quantum chemistry.
Corey Ostrove (Ph.D. UT-Austin, 2021) is an expert on efficient deployment of gate set tomography.
Riley Murray (Ph.D. Caltech, 2021) is an expert in optimization and numerical linear algebra and one of the core developers of the CVXPY package.
Alicia Magann (Ph.D. Princeton, 2021) is an expert in quantum control and feedback calibration, and a former Truman Fellow.
Kyle Skolfield (Ph.D. Arizona State, 2022) is an expert in optimization.
Postdocs
Aditya Dhumuntarao (Ph.D. Minnesota, 2022) joined the QPL as a postdoctoral scholar in 2023.
Yale Fan (Ph.D. Princeton, 2020) joined the QPL as a postdoctoral scholar in 2023.
Ashe Miller (Ph.D. LSU, 2022) joined the QPL as a postdoctoral scholar in 2023.
Daniel Hothem (Ph.D. Oregon, 2021) joined the QPL as a postdoctoral scholar in 2021.
Full-time Students
Jordan Hines is a PhD student at UC-Berkeley, and a QPL affiliate.
John Paul Marceaux is a PhD student at UC-Berkeley, a QISE-NET fellow, and a QPL affiliate.
Jalan Ziyad is a PhD student at UNM, and a QPL affiliate.
Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza is a PhD student at UNM, and a QPL affiliate.
Julia Kwok is a PhD student at UNM, and a QPL affiliate.
Piper Wysocki is a PhD student at UNM, and a QPL affiliate.
The QPL also regularly hosts PhD students as summer interns for short-term research projects, some of which develop into long-term collaborations or PhD dissertations.