Daniel Amihud Lidar | |
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| Born | 1968 Jerusalem |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering and Chemistry and Physics |
| Institutions | UC Berkeley University of Toronto University of Southern California |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Benny Gerber Ofer Biham |
Daniel Amihud Lidar[1] is the holder of the Viterbi Professorship of Engineering at the University of Southern California, where he is a professor of electrical engineering, chemistry, physics & astronomy. He is the director and co-founder of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology (CQIST), the director of the USC-IBM Quantum Innovation Center,[2] as well as scientific director of the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center, notable for his research on control of quantum systems and quantum information processing.