Dr. Shyam Shankar

Biography

Shyam Shankar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a Texas ECE Early Career Fellow. His research focuses on the development of superconducting and semiconductor quantum devices and their applications in quantum information science and engineering. He received his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2004, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2010. After completing his doctorate, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and later as a research scientist at Yale University's Applied Physics department. During this time, he led experiments that demonstrated the foundational principles for the design of large-scale quantum computers, including advancements in quantum back-action dispersive readout and the stabilization of entanglement through measurement-based autonomous feedback. In 2019, he established the Quantum Circuits group at the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on research in areas such as electromagnetics and acoustics, as well as contributing to the Microelectronics Research Center. His work aims to innovate in the development of quantum-limited amplifiers and non-reciprocal devices.

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