Irfan Siddiqi

Irfan Siddiqi is a professor and Douglas Giancoli Chair of the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. He’s also a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Berkeley, and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he directs the Advanced Quantum Testbed. His research group focuses on the development of advanced superconducting circuits for quantum information processing, including computation and metrology. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry and physics at Harvard University and a doctorate in applied physics from Yale University.