Andrew Childs

Andrew M. Childs is a professor of computer science and interim director of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), as well as director of the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation. Childs earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 2004, where he received his Hertz Fellowship. After a postdoctoral position at the California Institute of Technology’s Institute for Quantum Information, he joined the faculty at the University of Waterloo before moving to the University of Maryland in 2014, where he co-directed the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), a partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology.