Chris Wilson
Professor
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Christopher Wilson joined the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in 2012 as an Associate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He received his BS in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1996. There he performed undergraduate research on the role of nonlinear dynamics in the nervous system. He received his PhD in Physics from Yale University in 2002. His dissertation focused on the development of single-photon spectrometers using superconducting tunnel junctions. He then worked at Yale as the W.M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellow performing research on quantum computation and information processing using superconducting single-electronics. In 2004, he moved to Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, later becoming an Assistant Professor in 2007 and an Associate Professor in 2011. At the University of Waterloo, he plans to continue his work on quantum information, microwave quantum optics and nonlinear dynamics.
Research Interest
Microwave quantum optics Quantum memories and interfaces Circuit quantum electrodynamics
Publications
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Hoi IC, Wilson CM, Johansson G, Palomaki T, Peropadre B, Delsing P. Demonstration of a single-photon router in the microwave regime. Physical review letters. 2011 Aug 9;107(7):073601.
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Siddiqi I, Vijay R, Pierre F, Wilson CM, Metcalfe M, Rigetti C, Frunzio L, Devoret MH. RF-driven Josephson bifurcation amplifier for quantum measurement. Physical review letters. 2004 Nov 10;93(20):207002.
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Wilson CM, Johansson G, Pourkabirian A, Johansson JR, Duty T, Nori F, Delsing P. Observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit. arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4714. 2011 May 24.
