Andrew A. Houck (born June 20, 1979) is an American physicist, quantum information scientist, and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University. He is director of the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage, a national research center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, as well as co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative. [1] His research focuses on superconducting electronic circuits to process and store information for quantum computing [2] and to simulate and study many-body physics. [3] [4] He is a pioneer of superconducting qubits.
Andrew Houck grew up in Colts Neck, New Jersey, the son of David and Dennie Houck. [5] He studied electrical engineering at Princeton, where he was valedictorian of the Class of 2000. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2005.
As a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, in Robert Schoelkopf's lab, Houck was part of the team that originally developed the transmon [6] [7] — a superconducting qubit that is insensitive to charge noise — now the basic unit of hardware for many of today's most mature quantum technologies. [8] [9] He later redesigned the transmon using tantalum, leading to a major improvement in this class of devices. [10]
In 2019, Houck led a group that developed a microchip to simulate particle interactions in a hyperbolic plane, useful in investigating quantum phenomena. [11]
He has called quantum computing an "enabling technology" to solve problems in national security, health and climate change. [12]
Andrew A. Houck (born June 20, 1979) is an American physicist, quantum information scientist, and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University. He is director of the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage, a national research center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, as well as co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative. [1] His research focuses on superconducting electronic circuits to process and store information for quantum computing [2] and to simulate and study many-body physics. [3] [4] He is a pioneer of superconducting qubits.
Andrew Houck grew up in Colts Neck, New Jersey, the son of David and Dennie Houck. [5] He studied electrical engineering at Princeton, where he was valedictorian of the Class of 2000. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2005.
As a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, in Robert Schoelkopf's lab, Houck was part of the team that originally developed the transmon [6] [7] — a superconducting qubit that is insensitive to charge noise — now the basic unit of hardware for many of today's most mature quantum technologies. [8] [9] He later redesigned the transmon using tantalum, leading to a major improvement in this class of devices. [10]
In 2019, Houck led a group that developed a microchip to simulate particle interactions in a hyperbolic plane, useful in investigating quantum phenomena. [11]
He has called quantum computing an "enabling technology" to solve problems in national security, health and climate change. [12]