Marc J. Feldman
Engineering
D-Wave Systems
Canada
Biography
Marc J. Feldman serves as Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of D-wave Systems Inc. Dr. Feldman received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975, working with professors Ray Chiao and Charlie Townes. He worked at Chalmers University, Sweden, with Tord Claeson and at the NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York City, with Tony Kerr. His research career has focused on the theory and the experimental development of practical and useful devices that operate on quantum-mechanical principles. He was co-inventor of the Josephson array voltage standard, which now defines the standard 'VOLT.' He invented the four-photon Josephson parametric amplifier. He was instrumental in the development of the 'SIS' mixer now widely used for radio astronomy. On the faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia, Feldman established a laboratory which fabricated the highest quality Josephson junctions for receiver applications. He is now Senior Scientist and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester, where his group has developed ultra-high-speed (SFQ) digital circuits using superconductors.
Research Interest
His current research features measurements of superconducting qubits integrated with SFQ test circuitry. Feldman started the field of superconducting quantum computation with a white paper written in 1995.
