Advisory Boards and Councils

Science Advisory Board

The Science Advisory Board advises QSC leadership broadly on issues related to the scientific functioning of the Center. Its members are distinguished scientists whose work spans the scientific areas of the QSC, and many also have experience with scientific management. They are not funded by the QSC and are drawn from a range of domestic and international institutions. The SAB also serves as an additional means to disseminate information about the QSC and develop links with other centers and programs in the Center’s scientific areas.

Allan MacDonald
Chair, UT-Austin

Simon Bare
SLAC

David Cory
Waterloo

Elizabeth Crosson
UNM

Oleg Tchernyshyov
Johns Hopkins

Ian Shipsey
Oxford

Marcel Franz
UBC

Marc Kastner
MIT

Olivier Pfister
University of Virginia

Jeter Hall
SNOLAB

John Martinis
UCSB

Industry Advisory Council

The QSC engages directly with the private sector through a dedicated Industry Advisory Council composed of senior leadership from industrial stakeholders who provide perspective on the potential impact of quantum science and technology on US industrial competitiveness. The IAC meets twice per year to receive highlights on the signature capabilities of the QSC through prototype and application demonstrations and provides advice to the QSC leadership team to ensure maximum national gain.

Bo Begole
Chair, AMD Research

Julie Love
Microsoft Research

Florian Neukart
Volkswagen

Annarita Giani
GE Research

Evert Geurtsen
NQIT, Oxford

Mandy Birch
Rigetti

Jamie Thomas
IBM

Marco Pistoia
JPMorgan Chase

Amy Herhold
ExxonMobil

Governance Advisory Board

The QSC Governance Advisory Board is made up of partner managers and convenes to review the Center’s strategic direction and support QSC leadership in managing effective interfaces to R&D, technology transfer, and commercialization.

Jeff Nichols
Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Computational Sciences, ORNL

Irene Qualters
Associate Laboratory Director for Simulation and Computation, LANL

Toni Taylor
Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences, LANL

Yong Chen
Director, Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute

Joe Lykken
Deputy Director for Research, FNAL

Chetan Nayak
Director, Station Q, Microsoft

Charlie Marcus
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Quantum Research