Andrew A. Houck (born June 20, 1979) is an American physicist, quantum information scientist, and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University. He is director of the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage, a national research center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, as well as co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative.[1] His research focuses on superconducting electronic circuits to process and store information for quantum computing[2] and to simulate and study many-body physics.[3][4] He is a pioneer of superconducting qubits.