Ken Brown, PhD

Kenneth Brown is the Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Duke University. He received his BS in Chemistry from the University of Puget Sound in 1998. He was then a Hertz Fellow at UC Berkeley where he received his PhD in Chemistry in 2003 on the topic of “Theoretical Issues in Quantum Information Technologies.” After a postdoc at MIT,  he started his independent career at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. He moved to Duke University in 2018. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society for his work on quantum computation. His research interests include ion trap quantum computing, cold molecular ions, and quantum error correction.