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<article> <div class="node__content"> <div class="field field--name-field-sf-position-title field--type-string field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Position Title</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item">Professor, Department of Physics</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-sf-emails field--type-email field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Email</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="mailto:irfan_siddiqi@berkeley.edu">irfan_siddiqi@berkeley.edu</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="align-right media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-sf-profile"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/sf_profile/public/media/images/Irfan%20Siddiqi%20-%20UC%20Berekely%20speaker.jpg?h=97f81bec&itok=ia1Sahqs" width="520" height="580" alt="irfan siddiqi portrait" class="image-style-sf-profile"> </div> <p>Irfan Siddiqi is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He is the director of the Quantum Systems Accelerator, a U.S. Department of Energy funded national quantum information science research center, and the Advanced Quantum Testbed at LBNL that focuses on state-of-the-art superconducting quantum computing technologies. Siddiqi’s research has focused on high-fidelity readout of superconducting quantum bits, quantum simulation & computation, quantum feedback, quantum trajectories, squeezing and measurement limits, and near-quantum-limited microwave frequency amplification. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of its George E. Valley prize (2006) and Joseph F. Keithley Award (2021). He received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016 <span><span>— </span></span>the institution’s most prestigious honor for teaching and continued commitment to pedagogy. Siddiqi received his A.B. in chemistry and physics from Harvard University in 1997, and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Yale University in 2002.</p></div> <h2 class="field__label heading--auxiliary">Affiliation</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-affiliation field--type-entity-reference tags"> <a class="tags__tag" href="/affiliation/uc-berkeley">UC Berkeley</a> </div> <h2 class="field__label heading--auxiliary">Noyce Focus Area</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-noyce-focus-area field--type-entity-reference tags"> <a class="tags__tag" href="/noyce-focus-areas/quantum-computing">Quantum Computing</a> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <div class="l-container"> </div> </main> <footer class="l-footer footer dark-background"> <div class="l-container"> <div class="footer-spacer"> <div class="footer-spacer__logo"> <a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/"><img src="/profiles/contrib/sitefarm/themes/sitefarm_one/images/aggie-logo-white.svg" class="ucd-logo" alt="UC Davis footer logo" width="180" height="140" loading="lazy" /></a> </div> </div> <div class="region region-footer-credits"> <div id="block-sitefarm-one-uccredits" class="uc-footer block block-uc-credits block-uc-credits-block"> <ul class="list--pipe"> <li><a href="/contact">Questions or comments?</a></li> <li><a href="http://ucdavis.edu/help/privacy-accessibility.html">Privacy & Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/">University of California</a></li> <li><a href="/sitemap">Sitemap</a></li> <li>Last update: August 16, 2023</li> </ul> <p>Copyright © The Regents of the University of California, Davis campus. 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