Andrew James Kerman

Who is Andrew James Kerman?

Andrew J. Kerman was born in Winchester, MA on September 7, 1971. He received a B.S. degree with honors in physics and applied mathematics from Williams College in 1993. After a year as a research assistant in atomic and condensed-matter physics at Harvard University under professor Isaac Silvera, he began a Ph.D. in atomic physics and atomic laser cooling and trapping at Stanford University with professor Steven Chu, graduating in 2002. He did postdoctoral work at Yale University with professor David DeMille on quantum computing with ultracold polar molecules, as well as at MIT with professor Wolfgang Ketterle on ultracold fermionic atoms. In 2004, he joined the optical communications technology group at Lincoln Laboratory, in which he conducts ongoing research on superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors. In 2006, he began working with the analog device technology group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on quantum computing with superconducting Josephson-junction-based qubits.