Where: Physics & Astronomy Auditorium A-102
Bio: Liang Jiang is a professor in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and an Amazon Scholar on Quantum Computing. Jiang received his BS from Caltech in 2004 and PhD from Harvard University in 2009. He was a faculty member at Yale University during 2012-2019. His research focuses on using quantum control and error correction to build large scalable quantum systems. Jiang is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and also a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship, the Packard Fellowship, and the APS Landauer-Bennett Award.