Daniel Gottesman

Education

• High School: Walt Whitman, graduated 1988
• College: Harvard, B.A. 1992 (Summa Cum Laude, Physics)
• Graduate School: Caltech, Ph.D. 1997 (Physics)
  Advisor: John Preskill

Work/Research Experience

• College
  • Summer 1989: Performed theoretical study of chaos at University of Maryland with Professor Sankar Das Sarma.
  • Summer 1990: Worked on applications of a construction in category theory at National Institutes of Health with George Hutchinson.
  • Summer 1991: Worked on theoretical analysis of laser slowing and cooling of neutral atoms using the Sisyphus effect with Professor Mara Prentiss.
• Graduate School
  • July 1993: Guide at XXIV International Physics Olympiad in Williamsburg, VA, USA.
  • 1993-1995: Half time Teaching Assistant for Ph 129 (Mathematical Methods of Physics) at Caltech.
  • 1995-1996: Teaching Assistant for Ph 236 (General Relativity) at Caltech.
  • 1996-1997: Research Assistant in quantum computation at Caltech.
• Postdoctoral
  • 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.
  • Fall 2000: Lecturer at University of Washington Math Department.
  • Jan. 2001 - Aug. 2002: Long-Term Clay Mathematics Institute Prize Fellow, Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley EECS Department, Theory Group.
• Faculty and Research Staff
  • Sep. 2002 - June 2021: Research Scientist 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.
• Visiting and Adjunct
  • Sep. 2002 - Dec. 2002: member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Quantum Computation program.
  • Apr. 2003 - June 2021: adjunct professor, University of Waterloo Combinatorics and Optimization Department
  • May 2003 - June 2021: adjunct professor, University of Waterloo Physics Department

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