Daniel Gottesman

Address: Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), 3251 Atlantic Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20817 USA
E-mail: dgottesm@umd.edu
Home Page: http://perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/dgottesman

Education and Work Experience (More Details)

• College: Harvard, B.A. 1992 (Summa Cum Laude, Physics)
• Graduate School: Caltech, Ph.D. 1997 (Physics)
  Advisor: John Preskill
• Sep. 1997 - June 1999: Director-Funded Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory (joint appointment to T-6/ CIC-3).
• June 1999 - Dec. 2000: Postdoc with Theory Group in Microsoft Research.
• Jan. 2001 - Aug. 2002: Long-Term Clay Mathematics Institute Prize Fellow and Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley EECS Department, Theory Group.
• Sep. 2002 - June 2021: Faculty member at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario.
• Nov. 2017 - May 2021: Senior Scientist with Quantum Benchmark Inc.
• June 2021 - June 2023: Master Scientist, Keysight Technologies.
• July 2021 - present: Brin Family Endowed Professor in Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Maryland Computer Science department.
• July 2021 - present: QuICS Fellow, Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science.

Selected Awards and Honors (Longer List)

• Elected APS Fellow (2013)
• Named as CIFAR Scholar in Quantum Information Processing program (2003), renewed 2007 & 2013, promoted to Senior Fellow 2008
• Named to 2003 TR100: Top Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review (2003)
• Awarded Long-Term Clay Mathematics Institute Prize Fellowship (2000)
• Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1992)
• Elected Junior Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard (1991)
• Member of 1988 Physics Olympiad Team
• Participant in 1987 U.S. Math Olympiad Program
• National Merit Scholar
• 17th on 1987 U.S.A. Math Olympiad

Selected Conference Talks (Longer List)

• Plenary speaker at XXII International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (Hobart, Australia, July 1998)
• Tutorial speaker at Quantum Information Processing 2000 Workshop (Montreal, Quebec, Dec. 1999)
• Invited speaker at AMS Short Course on Quantum Computation at AMS Annual Meeting (Washington DC, Jan. 2000)
• Invited speaker at Conference on Conventional and non Conventional Computing (Torino, Italy, June 2000)
• Invited speaker at EuroWorkshop on Quantum Computer Theory: in search of viable Optimal design (Torino, Italy, June 2001).
• Invited speaker at International Symposium on Quantum Computing - Nano Science & Technology for Implementation of Quantum Computers (Tokyo, Japan, March 2002).
• Tutorial speaker at Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (Long Beach, California, May 2002).
• Invited speaker at KIAS-APCTP Workshop on Quantum Information (Seoul, Korea, June 2002).
• Plenary speaker at Conference on Number Theory and Combinatorics in Physics (Gainesville, Florida, March 2003).
• Invited speaker at Fields Institute Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control (Toronto, Ontario, July 2004)
• Invited speaker at Newton Institute focus week on quantum gravity and quantum information (Cambridge, UK, December 2004).
• Invited speaker at NATO Advanced Study Institute in Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (Chania, Greece, May 2005).
• Invited speaker at Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Symposium on Quantum Information (Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2005).
• Lecturer at Institut Henri Poincare program on Quantum Information, Computation and Complexity (Paris, France, January-April 2006).
• Invited speaker at 2006 Quantum Information Science Gordon Research Conference (Barga, Italy, May 2006).
• Invited speaker at 7th European QIPC Workshop (London, UK, October 2006).
• Tutorial speaker at APS March Meeting (Denver, Colorado, March 2007).
• Plenary speaker at 35th Canadian Operator Symposium (Guelph, Ontario, June 2007).
• Invited speaker at QIPC 2007 International Conference on Quantum Information Processing and Communication (Barcelona, Spain, October 2007).
• Invited speaker at Ninth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (Calgary, Alberta, August 2008).
• Invited speaker at 2008 Quantum Information Science Gordon Research Conference (Big Sky, Montana, September 2008).
• Invited speaker at xQIT Conference on Difficult Problems in Quantum Information Theory (Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2008).
• Invited speaker at Short Course on Quantum Information at 2009 AMS Annual Meeting (Washington, DC, January 2009).
• Invited speaker at IMA Conference on Quantum Computing and Complexity of Quantum Simulation (London, UK, March 2009).
• Invited speaker at Quantum Theory and Symmetries 6 conference (Lexington, Kentucky, July 2009)
• Invited speaker at Workshop on Quantum Computation and Quantum Spin Systems (Vienna, Austria, August 2009)
• Invited speaker at Conference on Quantum Statistical Mechanics, Computation and Information (Trieste, Italy, June 2010)
• Invited tutorial speaker at Advanced school in quantum information processing and quantum cryptography (Montreal, Quebec, June 2010)
• Invited talk at Simons Conference on New Trends in Quantum Computation (Stony Brook, New York, November 2010)
• Invited talk at Workshop on Difficult Problems in Quantum Information Theory (Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2011)
• Invited talk at Quantum Computer Science workshop (Montreal, Quebec, October 2011)
• Keynote talk at 2nd International Conference on Quantum Error Correction (Los Angeles, California, December 2011)
• Invited talk at Quantum Science Gordon Research Conference (Easton, Massachusetts, Aug. 2012)
• Plenary lecture at Quantum Innovators workshop (Waterloo, Ontario, Sep. 2012)
• Invited talk at IV Workshop-school in quantum computation and information (Fortaleza, Brazil, Oct. 2012)
• Invited speaker at Qstart Conference (Jerusalem, Israel, June 2013)
• Plenary talk at QIP 2014 (Barcelona, Spain, January 2014)
• Invited talk at APS March Meeting (Denver, Colorado, March 2014)
• Invited talk at QuICS workshop (College Park, Maryland, March 2014)
• Invited talk at Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information (Guelph, Ontario, June 2014)
• Tutorial talk at AQIS 2014 (Kyoto, Japan, August 2014)
• Keynote talk at QEC 2014 (Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 2014)
• Invited talk at Quantum Noise and Model Reduction Workshop (Laurel, Maryland, Jan. 2015)
• Invited talk at SQuInT Workshop (Berkeley, California, Feb. 2015)
• Invited talk at Simons Institute Hamiltonian Complexity reunion workshop (Berkeley, California, May 2015)
• Invited talk at QuICS workshop (College Park, Maryland, Sep. 2015)
• Invited talk at APS March Meeting (Baltimore, Maryland, Mar. 2016)
• Tutorial talks at It From Qubit Summer School (Waterloo, Ontario, July 2016)
• Invited talk at QEC 2017 (College Park, Maryland, Sep. 2017)
• Invited talk at KITP conference on Frontiers of Quantum Information Physics (Santa Barbara, California, Oct. 2017)
• Invited lectures at Boulder Summer School on Quantum Information (Boulder, Colorado, July 2018)
• Invited speaker at SPIE conference Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII (online, Dec. 14-18, 2020)
• Invited talk at NASA Quantum Conference (online, Aug. 18, 2021)
• Rapporteur at 28th Solvay Conference on Physics (The Physics of Quantum Information) (Brussels, Belgium, May 21, 2022)
• Keynote speaker at Quantum Error Correction Summer School (Tarrytown, New York, July 5, 2022)
• Invited talk at Heraeus Seminar on Coping with Errors in Scalable Quantum Computing Systems (Bad Honnef, Germany, Jan. 8, 2023)

Public Lectures

• Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference (Toronto, Ontario, January 2004).
• Ryerson University ITM Speaker Series (Toronto, Ontario, March 2004).
• Quantum Information Science Festival (Calgary, Alberta, January 2005).
• Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference (Toronto, Ontario, January 2006).
• Perimeter Institute Public Lecture (Waterloo, Ontario, April 2007). (Recording: PIRSA:07040020)
• "The Next Big Question" Tour for Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 2007 and Toronto, Ontario, November 2007).
• Panelist on PI Quantum To Cosmos panel discussion, "Harnessing Quantum Physics" (Waterloo, Ontario, October 2009). (Recording: Q2CFestival site).
• Panelist at the World Science Festival, "The Next Quantum Leap: Here, There, and Everywhere" (New York, New York, May 2014)

Teaching

• Fall 2000: Math 324F, "Advanced Multivariable Calculus I," University of Washington Mathematics department
• Spring 2003: Reading course on "Quantum Error Correction," UW Physics department
• Winter 2004: CO 639, "Quantum Error Correction," UW Combinatorics and Optimization department
• Winter 2007: "Quantum Error Correction," Perimeter Institute
• Winter 2010: Quantum Information review, PSI
• Winter 2011: Quantum Information review, PSI
• Winter 2012: QIC 890/CO 781/CS 867, "Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance," co-taught with Debbie Leung, University of Waterloo
• Winter 2012: Quantum Information review, PSI
• Winter 2014: QIC 890, "Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance," co-taught with Robert Koenig, University of Waterloo
• Winter 2015: Quantum Information review, PSI
• Spring 2016: QIC 890/CS 867, "Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance", at University of Waterloo
• Winter 2018: QIC 890/CS 867, "Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance," co-taught with Beni Yoshida, UW course held at Perimeter Institute
• Winter 2018: Quantum Information Review, PSI
• Winter 2019: Phys 635, Quantum Information Review, PSI
• Winter 2020: QIC 890/CS 867, ``Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance,'' University of Waterloo
• Winter 2021: Phys 635, ``Quantum Information Review,'' Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) course (held on-line, with recorded lectures from previous years plus question-answering sessions)
• Fall 2021: CMSC 657, ``Introduction to Quantum Information Processing,'' University of Maryland
• Fall 2022: CMSC/Math/ENE 456, ``Introduction to Cryptography,'' University of Maryland
• Spring 2023: CMSC 858L, ``Quantum Complexity,'' University of Maryland
• Fall 2023: CMSC/Math/ENE 456, ``Introduction to Cryptography," University of Maryland

Selected Professional Activities

• Co-moderator, quant-ph e-print archive (2003-).
• Chair of arXiv.org Physics Advisory Committee (2013-2016).
• Member of arXiv.org Scientific Advisory Board (2017--2022), emeritus member of arXiv.org Scientific Advisory Council (2023--present)
• Editorial board member for Virtual Journal of Quantum Information (2001-2012).
• Conference organization, as a principal organizer:
  • Co-chair, QIP 2004 conference.
  • Co-organizer, quantum information session, Canadian Math Society Summer 2005 meeting
  • Co-organizer, Taming the Quantum World (June 2007)
  • Co-organizer, Fault-tolerant quantum computation II (June 2007)
  • Member of organizing committee for Emergence and Entanglement workshop (May 2010)
  • Program committee chair for QIP 2011 (January 2011)
  • Co-organizer, From Monopoles to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation, Conference in Honor of John Preskill’s 60th Birthday (March 2013)
  • Chair of organizing committee, What can we do with a small quantum computer? (December 2013)
  • Co-organizer, International Workshop on Quantum LDPC Codes (July 2014)
  • Co-organizer, Workshop on Hopf Algebras in Kitaev's Quantum Double Models (July - Aug. 2017)
• Conference committee membership
• Steering committee member for QIP 2005, QIP 2006, and QIP 2007 conferences; program committee member for QIP 2006, QIP 2009, QIP 2018, and QIP 2022.
• Advisory and award committee member for QCMC 2000, QCMC 2002, QCMC 2004
• Program committee member for 2006 GRC on quantum information science
• Program committee member for AQIS 2008, AQIS 2016
• Member of scientific advisory committee for Fields Institute Thematic Program on the Mathematics in Quantum Information (Summer 2009)
• Member of organizing committee for 2009 Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information
• Member of organizing committee for NATO Advanced School in Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Cryptography (June 2010)
• Advisory Board member for QEC11; steering committee member for QEC 2019 and QEC 2023
• Grant review panels:
  • SFB grant review panel for FWF (Austria, 2008)
  • xQIT visiting committee member (MIT, 2008)
• Book reviews:
  • of Introduction to Quantum Computation and Information, eds. Hoi-Kwong Lo, Sandu Popescu, and Tim Spiller, World Scientific (1998), in Quantum Information and Computation, vol. 2, no. 2 (March 2002), pp. 177-178.
  • of A. Yu. Kitaev, A. H. Shen, and M. N. Vyalyi, Classical and Quantum Computation, American Mathematical Society (2002), in American Mathematical Monthly, Dec. 2003.
  • of J. Audretsch, Entangled Systems: New Directions in Quantum Physics, in The Physics Teacher, Oct. 2007, DOI: 10.1119/1.2783167.
  • of Andrew Whitaker, The New Quantum Age: From Bell's Theorem to Quantum Computation and Teleportation, in Physics Today, vol. 66, no. 3 (March 2013), pp. 57-58, DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.1920.
• News and viewpoint articles:
  • "Jump-Starting Quantum Error Correction with Entanglement," Science 314, 427-428 (2006), Perspective on T. Brun, I. Devetak, M.-H. Hsieh, "Correcting Quantum Errors with Entanglement". Free reprints (summary, full text).
  • "Keeping One Step Ahead of Errors," Physics 5, 50 (2012), DOI: 10.1103/Physics.5.50, Viewpoint on H. Bombin, Ruben S. Andrist, Masayuki Ohzeki, Helmut G. Katzgraber, and M. A. Martin-Delgado, "Strong Resilience of Topological Codes to Depolarization," Phys. Rev. X 2, 021004 (2012).
  • "Quantum Computing: Efficient Fault Tolerance," Nature 540, 44Ð45 (2016), DOI: 10.1038/nature20479, News & Views on T.J. Yoder, R. Takagi, & I. L. Chuang, Phys. Rev. X 6, 031039 (2016).
  • "Deciphering Errors to Reduce the Cost of Quantum Computation," Comm. ACM 64, No. 1 (Jan. 2021).
• Patents:
  • Daniel Gottesman, US Patent 6,128,764: "Quantum error-correcting codes and devices".
  • Isaac Chuang, Daniel Gottesman, U.S. Patent 7,246,240: "Quantum Digital Signatures".
  • Hoi-Kwong Lo, Daniel Gottesman, U.S. Patent 7,415,114: "Quantum Key System and Method".
  • Daniel Gottesman, U.S. patent pending: "Systems and methods for use of a maximally sensitive set of states to identify coherent errors in a quantum system".

Grants

• CIFAR Senior Fellow in Quantum Information Processing program: $25,000/year (beginning 2003, renewed 2007 and 2013, ending 2019)
• NSERC Discovery grant: $30,000/year (2004 - 2009)
• Participant in NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation: $25,000,000 (Sep. 1, 2021 - Aug. 31, 2026)

Publications

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