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Daniel Gottesman

University of Maryland

RQS Senior Investigator
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Daniel Gottesman is the Brin Family Endowed Professor in Theoretical Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland. He is also a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. Gottesman’s research focuses on quantum computation and quantum information. He works in the sub-fields of quantum error correction, fault-tolerant quantum computation, quantum cryptography and quantum complexity. He received his doctorate in physics from Caltech in 1997.

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  • Daniel Gottesman stands by a whiteboard filled with written equations.

    A New Link Between Generalized Quantum Error-Correcting Codes, Complexity and Physics

    September 4, 2024

    RQS senior investigator Daniel Gottesman is part of a team of current and former researchers at Perimeter Institute exploring a new universal boundary that separates ‘nontrivial’ quantum error-correction codes from the rest.