Biography:Pedram Roushan

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Short description: Iranian-american physicist
Pedram Roushan
Born1978
Alma materUniversity of Pittsburgh, Princeton University (Ph.D.)
Spouse(s)Mojgan Roushan
Scientific career
Fieldsquantum physics, quantum information science
InstitutionsPrinceton University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Google AI
ThesisVisualizing Surface States of Topological Insulators with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (2011)
Doctoral advisorAli Yazdani[1]
Websiteresearch.google/people/108435/

Pedram Roushan is an Iranian-American physicist working at Google AI on quantum computing and quantum simulation.

Pedram Roushan was born in Sari, Iran in 1978 and raised in Iran. His family belonged to the Baháʼí Faith and suffered prosecution and discrimination after the Islamic Revolution. Roushan's parents lost their jobs and his father had to spend several years in hiding. Roushan was denied access to Iranian universities. He enrolled at the Baháʼí Institute for Higher Education, where he obtained a degree in civil engineering.[2]

In 2001 and with the help of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society (HIAS),[3] he moved to the US as a religious refugee and attended the University of Pittsburgh,[4] where he graduated summa cum laude in 2005. He completed his PhD in the group of Ali Yazdani at Princeton University in 2011. In the course of his research there, he studies diluted magnetic semiconductors [5] and also performed the first [6] scanning tunneling microscopy on the surface of topological insulator. He then moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara as a postdoc, where he worked in John Martinis' group on building a quantum computer based on superconducting qubits. In 2014 he joined Google together with the Martinis team[7] and was part of the group performing the first claimed quantum supremacy demonstration on Google's Sycamore processor.[8]

He is currently a Staff Research Scientist with Google and leads the experimental effort on noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) algorithms, focusing on simulating quantum phenomena on NISQ processors.[9] With his team and their collaborators, they have studied information scrambling in quantum circuits,[10] non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum spin models,[11] phases of matter away from equilibrium, e.g. time crystals [12] and measurement-induced entanglement phases,[13] quantum statistics of abelian [14] and non-abelian excitations of the Kitaev toric code model.[15]

As of November 2023, Roushan has published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals which have been cited over 25,000 times (h-index of 50).[16]

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References

  1. "Pedram Roushan, Ph.D.". Physics Tree. https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=457364. Retrieved 2023-12-13. 
  2. Kian Sabeti (October 29, 2019). "The Google Quantum Scientist Was Banned from Attending University in Iran". https://iranpresswatch.org/post/20544/google-quantum-scientist-banned-attending-university-iran/. 
  3. HIAS (2024). "Hebrew Immigration Aid Society.". https://hias.org/. 
  4. Nick Keppler (2019). "Shades of Good Will Hunting. Tackling quantum computing, one problem at a time.". Pitt Magazine. https://www.pittmag.pitt.edu/news/shades-good-will-hunting. 
  5. Science (February 5, 2010). "Visualizing Critical Correlations Near the Metal-Insulator Transition in Ga_{1-x}Mn_xAs". https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1183640. 
  6. Nature (August 9, 2009). "Topological surface states protected from backscattering by chiral spin texture". https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08308. 
  7. "Author info: Pedram Roushan". ieee.org. 2019-10-14. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37086701976. Retrieved 2023-12-13. 
  8. Arute, Frank; Arya, Kunal; Babbush, Ryan et al. (2019). "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor". Nature 574 (7779): 505–510. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1666-5. PMID 31645734. Bibcode2019Natur.574..505A. 
  9. "About Pedram Roushan". google.com. https://research.google/people/108435/. 
  10. Science (October 28, 2021). "Information scrambling in quantum circuits". https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg5029. 
  11. Nature (December 7, 2022). "Formation of robust bound states of interacting microwave photons". https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05348-y. 
  12. Nature (November 30, 2021). "Time-crystalline eigenstate order on a quantum processor". https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04257-w. 
  13. Nature (October 18, 2023). "Measurement-induced entanglement and teleportation on a noisy quantum processor". https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06505-7. 
  14. Sciecne (December 2, 2021). "Realizing topologically ordered states on a quantum processor". https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi8378. 
  15. Nature (May 11, 2023). "Non-Abelian braiding of graph vertices in a superconducting processor". https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05954-4. 
  16. "Citation Report: Roushan, P.". webofscience.com. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/citation-report/3881919e-456f-47a7-9744-162597ec1d7d-b78ca7f1. 

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