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xQIT: Leadership

The W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory (xQIT) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is led by Professors Seth Lloyd (Center Director) and Jeffrey H. Shapiro (Center Co-Director). Professor Lloyd has made seminal theoretical contributions to quantum computation, communication, and measurement. Professor Shapiro is the Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at MIT, and he has made fundamental theoretical contributions to quantum communications.

From L to R: Farhi, Shapiro, Lloyd

The faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and visiting scientists are organized to attack xQIT's three problem areas:

  • Professor Edward Farhi leads our work on solving average-case NP-hard problems by means of adiabatic quantum computing. The other faculty members on this team are Professors Jeffrey Goldstone, Seth Lloyd, and Peter Shor.
  • Professor Shapiro leads our work on capacity and coding for quantum channels. The other faculty members on this team are Professors Leonid Levitov, Seth Lloyd, Sanjoy Mitter, and Peter Shor.
  • Professor Seth Lloyd will lead our team on quantum sensing and control. The other faculty members on this team are Profesors Leonid Levitov, Sanjoy Mitter, Jeffrey Shapiro, Peter Shor, and Jean-Jacques Slotine

 

xQIT: Senior Investigators

 

Seth Lloyd

Seth Lloyd—Principal Investigator
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and Professor of Engineering Systems
Research Laboratory of Electronics

 

Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Jeffrey H. Shapiro—Co-Principal Investigator
Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering
Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics

   

Edward H. Farhi

Edward H. Farhi
Professor of Physics
Director, Center for Theoretical Physics

 

Jeffrey Goldstone

Jeffrey Goldstone
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Center for Theoretical Physics

   

Leonid S. Levitov

Leonid S. Levitov
Professor of Physics

 

Sanjoy K. Mitter

Sanjoy K. Mitter
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Engineering Systems
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

   

Peter W. Shor

Peter W. Shor
Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

 

Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

Jean-Jacques E. Slotine
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Director, Nonlinear Systems Laboratory

   

Scott Aaronson

Scott Aaronson
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

   
     

 

xQIT: Postdoctoral Fellows

 

 

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"...we will attack problems that are related to deep mathematical and physical questions whose resolution has evaded researchers for decades."