Daniel Lidar
Viterbi Professorship in Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics and Astronomy
Education
- Doctoral Degree, Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Master's Degree, Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Bachelor's Degree, Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Biography
Daniel Lidar is the holder of the Viterbi Professorship of Engineering at the University of Southern California and researches quantum information processing. He holds joint appointments in the departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics & Astronomy. He is the Director of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology, the Director of the USC-IBM Quantum Innovation Center, and the co-Director of the USC Center for Quantum Computing. He is a Fellow of the APS, IEEE, and APS, and a recipient of Guggenheim and Sloan Research Fellowships.Research Summary
Lidar's research focuses on quantum information processing, with a particular emphasis on quantum computation and quantum computers. His recent work spans quantum error correction, open quantum systems, quantum algorithms, quantum control, superconducting qubits, quantum phase transitions, adiabatic quantum computation, quantum annealing, and quantum machine learning.Awards
- 2018 USC Viterbi School of Engineering Senior Research Award
- 2017 California Institute of Technology Moore Distinguished Scholar in Physics
- 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2016 University of Southern California Viterbi Professorship
- 2014 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow
- 2012 American Physical Society Topical Group on Quantum Information (GQI) Chair
- 2012 American Association of Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) Fellow
- 2009 Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society
- 2007 American Physical Society (APS) Fellow
- 2003 Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
- 2002 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Top Twenty Researchers under Age 40
- 2001 Government of the Province of Ontario Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award
- 2001 Government of the Province of Ontario John C. Polanyi Prize in Chemistry
Appointments
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- Dir-Center, USC-IBM Quantum Innovation Center (QIC)
- , Scientific Director of the USC-LM Quantum Computing Center
- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Chemistry
- Physics and Astronomy
- SSC 609
- Frank R. Seaver Science Center
- 920 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90089
- USC Mail Code: 482
- (213) 740-0198
- lidar@usc.edu