花季传媒

Steven Flammia is the director of the Center for Quantum Architecture at the 花季传媒 Tech Innovation Campus. In this role, he will drive strategy and build the team for the new Center, based in Alexandria, including spearheading the hiring of additional faculty scientists. He also has an appointment of professor of computer science in the College of Engineering.

Flammia joins the Innovation Campus from the Amazon Web Services Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, Calif., where he worked for three years as a principal research scientist. He previously worked as a professor at the University of Sydney in Australia, a principal research scientist at the University of Washington, and a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Throughout his career, he has published more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and garnered more than 9,000 citations. Several of his theoretical results have led to in the study of characterization, verification, and validation of quantum devices.