Steve Schnetzer is a professor in the Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Department. He received a doctoral degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981 and joined the Rutgers faculty in 1984. In 1983, he proposed and founded a high energy physics experiment at the KEK laboratory in Japan. Later he led the development of radiation-hardened electronics for use in one of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. In 2015, he established one of the first undergraduate courses in the US on quantum computing. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Two of his recent students were awarded Goldwater Scholarships, the most prestigious award given to science, engineering and math undergraduate students in the US. For over ten years, he has run a highly acclaimed two-week summer program on particle physics and cosmology for high school students.
Eesh Gupta is a third year undergraduate student at Rutgers University. He is from New Delhi, India. He works on quantum optimization algorithms and superconducting qubits. Outside of physics, he plays flute at Rutgers Symphony Band.
Mohamed Boubendir is a third year undergraduate student at Rutgers University. He is also a classical pianist and an amateur historian who enjoys literature and poetry.
Andrew Wan is a senior at Montgomery High School. He is especially interested in physics and computer science, so he was naturally drawn towards the interdisciplinary field of quantum computing. He is excited about the research project as it gives him an opportunity to solve real-world problems.