Isaac L. Chuang is an American electrical engineer and physicist. He leads the quanta research group at the Center for Ultracold Atoms at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

(MIT). He received his undergraduate degrees in physics (1990) and electrical engineering (1991) and master's in electrical engineering (1991) at MIT.Copsey, D.; Oskin, M.; Impens, F.; Metodiev, T.; Cross, A.; Chong, F.T.; Chuang, I.L.; Kubiatowicz, J., "Toward a scalable, silicon-based quantum computing architecture," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol.9, no.6, pp. 1552–1569, Nov.-Dec. 2003, In 1997 he received his

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in electrical engineering from

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. Chuang is one of the pioneers of NMR quantum computing. Since 2003, Chuang has focused his attention on trapped ion approaches to quantum computing, as the field of liquid state NMR quantum computing fell out of favor due to limitations on its scalability beyond tens of qubits due to noise. Chuang is also widely known for having authored ''

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information ''Quantum Computation and Quantum Information'' is a textbook about quantum information science written by Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang, regarded as a standard text on the subject. It is informally known as "Mike and Ike", after the Mike an ...

'', one of the primary reference books in the field with

Michael Nielsen Michael Aaron Nielsen (born January 4, 1974) is a quantum physicist, science writer, and computer programming researcher living in San Francisco. Work In 1998, Nielsen received his PhD in physics from the University of New Mexico. In 2004, he wa ...

, cited by more than 40,000. While employed at IBM in 1999, Chuang was to be featured in a film by

Errol Morris Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of its subjects. In 2003, his documentary film '' The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara ...

, commissioned by IBM for an internal conference on the occasion of the year 2000. The conference was cancelled and the film was never completed, howeve
excerpts
including Chuang can be viewed at Morris's personal web site. In 2015, he led a study showing that some students on the edX platform cheat by creating multiple accounts and "harvesting" correct answers.

Honors

* 2010 Fellow of the

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* In 1999, he was named to the MIT

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as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

Selected bibliography

References

Living people 21st-century American physicists American electrical engineers Fellows of the American Physical Society Quantum information scientists Year of birth missing (living people) MIT Department of Physics alumni American people of Chinese descent {{US-physicist-stub