Vladan Vuletić
Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics,
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) , QuEra Computing Inc.
Professor Vladan Vuletić was born in Pec, Serbia, Yugoslavia, and educated in Germany. In 1992, he earned the Physics Diploma with highest honors from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and in 1997, a PhD in Physics (summa cum laude) from the same institution. He then went on to work with Professor Steven Chu at Stanford University as a Lynen Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation. In 2000, he was appointed an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Stanford and in June 2003 accepted an Assistant Professorship in Physics at MIT. He was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2004, and to Full Professor in July 2011. He currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at QuEra Computing Inc.
Vuletić has published over 150 refereed articles in the fields of atomic physics, laser cooling and trapping, precision measurements and quantum physics. Awards include a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Fellowship of the APS, and the Marko Jarić Prize of Serbia. Research interests include ultracold atoms, laser cooling, many-body entanglement, quantum metrology, precision tests of physics beyond the Standard Model, and quantum simulation and quantum computing.
URL: https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/vladan-vuletic/
Speech title:
Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms