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Principal Investigator

Robert McDermott
608-263-4476
rfmcdermott@wisc.edu

Scientists

Gabe Bernhardt

PostDocs

Yutaka Takeda

PhD Students

Sohair Abdullah

Shravan Patel

Matthew Snyder

Gabe Spahn

Spencer Weeden

Elam Blackwell

R K Rupesh

Le-Chih Cho

Alumni

Abigail Shearrow - Research Staff Member, IBM (2025)

Thesis - Novel Quantum Devices for Computation and Sensing

Chuan-Hong "Vincent" Liu - Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley (2023)

Thesis - Photon Assisted Quasiparticle Poisoning and Single Flux Quantum-Based Digital Control of Superconducting Qubits

Chris Wilen - Research Scientist, Rigetti (2021)

Thesis - Correlated Charge Noise and Relaxation Errors in Superconducting Qubits

Alex Opremcak - Research Scientist, Google (2020)

Thesis - Qubit State Measurement Using a Microwave Photon Counter

Edward Leonard Jr - Physicist, Northrop Grumman (2018)

Thesis - Digital Control of Superconducting Quantum Bits

Matt Beck - Research Staff Member, IBM (2018)

Thesis - Hybrid Superconducting Quantum Computing Architechture

Joseph Suttle - Research Staff Member, IBM (2018)

Thesis - A Superconducting Ion Detector

Guilhem Ribeill - Scientist I, Raytheon BBN Technologies (2016)

Thesis - Qubit Readout with the Josephson Photomultiplier

Steven L Sendelbach - Northrop Grumman (2013)

Thesis - Investigations of 1/f flux noise in superconducting quantum circuits

David Hover - Instrument Scientist, Caltech (2013)

Thesis - Dispersive Readout of a Superconducting Qubit Using a SLUG Amplifier

Previous PostDocs

David Harrison - Quantum Hardware Engineer, Qolab

Andrey Klots - Google Quantum AI

Bradley Christensen - Physicist, Northrop Grumman

Ivan Pechenezhskiy - Assistant Professor, Syracuse University

Ted Thorbeck - Research Staff Member, IBM

Pradeep Kumar - Advanced Cooling Technologies

Umeshkumar Patel - Argonne National Laboratory

Shaojiang Zhu - Fermilab