Prof. Kevin P. O'Brien
Associate Professor
EECS

Room 36-351
kpobrien@mit.edu
(617) 253-0986

Curriculum vitae
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Administrative Assistant
qce-admin@mit.edu
(617) 253-2519

Kevin joined MIT EECS and RLE in Fall 2018. His research focuses on engineering nonlinear and quantum-mechanical light-matter interactions using superconducting circuits. The goals are twofold: to explore quantum mechanics in engineered systems such as metamaterials and to develop the quantum technology necessary for quantum computing to be successful. He received a BS in physics from Purdue University, a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley, and completed postdoctoral work at the UC Berkeley developing high-coherence superconducting quantum processors.

Kaidong Peng
Postdoctoral Researchers

Room 36-325
kdpeng at mit dot edu
(617) 253-8524

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Kaidong received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018 and PhD in EECS from MIT in August 2023. His undergraduate research was in integrated photonics on the design and fabrication of non-volatile switches and modulators for energy-efficient optical routing. He first joined QCE Spring 2019. He is currently working on traveling wave parametric amplifiers, isolators, and circulators for quantum computing applications.

Jennifer Wang
Graduate Student
EECS

Room 36-323
jwang17 at mit dot edu
(617) 253-8524

Jennifer received her Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Wellesley College in 2020. During undergrad, she worked on optically detected magnetic resonance with NV centers, topological phononic metamaterials, and high-rate quantum entanglement sources using nonlinear crystal waveguides. She joined QCE in Fall 2020, and is interested in applying nonlinear optics and metamaterials theory to superconducting systems.

Alec Yen
Graduate Student
EECS

Room 36-323
alecyen at mit dot edu
(617) 253-8524

Alec received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 2020. His past research has included analog integrated circuit design and terahertz integrated systems. Alec joined QCE in the fall of 2021. He is a recipient of the MIT Irwin Jacobs Presidential Fellowship and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He is interested in quantum measurement and control, entanglement schemes, and scalable architectures for superconducting qubits.

Andres Lombo
Graduate Student
EECS

Room 36-323
alombo at mit dot edu
(617) 253-8524

Andres received his Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Science - Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2022. In his undergraduate research Andres worked on both superconducting devices for both quantum and neuromorphic computing. He is currently working on traveling wave superconducting devices with a simultaneous focus on materials and fabrication.

Jeremy B. Kline
Graduate Student
EECS

Room 36-325
jbkline at mit dot edu
(617) 253-8524

Jeremy recieved his Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 2021. Before joining QCE in Fall 2022, his research involved diamond NV center magnetometry, quantum algorithms for NISQ devices, superconducting circuit design, and physical neural networks. His current research focuses on superconducting qubit measurement, gates, and control, although he enjoys hearing about any attempt to compute more things faster.

Jessica Kedziora
Graduate Student
EECS

Room 36-315
je28670 at mit dot edu
(617) 253-8524

Jessica joined QCE in Spring 2023 as a MIT Lincoln Laboratory Scholar. Jessica is an Entrepeneur and industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience in engineering and development of integrated microwave systems. Her past research involved modeling and optimization of RADAR hardware phase noise, distributed antenna networks, animal telemetry, specialized RF design tools and quantum-based sensors. Her master's degree was received from UCSD in 2015 in wireless embedded systems. Her current research interests are in optimization and design automation of quantum devices and systems.

Daniela Zaidenberg
Graduate Student
EECS

Room 36-325
dzaiden at mit dot edu
(617) 253-8524

Daniela received her Bachelor of Science in Physics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her past research included design and simulation of superconducting packages for large qubit arrays, quantum volume experiments, surface code simulation, and quantum machine learning. Daniela joined QCE in the fall of 2023. She is a recipient of the Presidential Lorber Presidential Fellowship. She is interested in nonlinear circuit simulation, traveling-wave parametric amplifiers, and quantum transduction.

Franklin Wei
Graduate Student
EECS

Room 36-315
fw1 at mit dot edu
(617) 253-8524

Franklin received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Duke University in 2023, where his undergraduate research focused on the development of optical imaging systems. After stints as a mechanic and an optical engineer, he joined QCE in fall of 2024. His interests include nonlinear circuit modeling and computational approaches to quantum device design. He enjoys classical guitar, machining, skiing, recreational programming and mathematics, contra dance, rollerblading, rock climbing, and arc welding.

Eric Bui
Graduate Student
EECS

Room 36-315
eqbui at mit dot edu
(617) 253-8524