BIO

Megan Dahlhauser earned her PhD from the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education (now the University of Tennessee Oak Ridge Innovation Institute) jointly at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She is a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories as part of the Quantum Performance Laboratory and works on testing the performance of quantum computers, and especially on evaluating the accuracy of performance tests and their results.

ABSTRACT

When modern computers fail to solve a certain problem, we look for alternatives like quantum computers which might be able to solve some of these unreachable problems. Currently, quantum computers experience errors that prevent them from reaching their full potential. My work is to help accurately diagnose those errors so we can move towards a future with fully realized quantum computers.