Daniel Gottesman
Brin Family Professor in Theoretical Computer Science and Co-Director

Contact Information
- dgottesm@umd.edu
- Office:
3251 Atlantic Building
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Bio
Daniel Gottesman is the Brin Family Endowed Professor in Theoretical Computer Science and a co-director of QuICS. He also has an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
He comes to UMD from the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada.
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 is best known for developing the stabilizer code formalism for creating and describing a large class of quantum codes and for work on performing quantum gates using quantum teleportation.
Gottesman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was named to the MIT Technology Review's TR100: Top Young Innovators for 2003.
He received his doctoral degree in physics from Caltech in 1997.
Go here to view Gottesman’s academic publications on Google Scholar.
Recent News
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Recent Publications
Adaptive Syndrome Extraction
, , PRX Quantum, 6, 030307, (2025)Bounds on Eventually Universal Quantum Gate Sets
, , https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09931, (2025)Fault tolerant Operations in Majorana-based Quantum Codes: Gates, Measurements and High Rate Constructions
, , https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09928, (2025)
Courses
- Introduction to Quantum Information Processing (CMSC657, Fall 2024)
- Advanced Topics in Theory of Computing; Quantum Error Correction and Fault-Tolerance (CMSC858G, Spring 2024)
- Advanced Topics in Theory of Computing; Quantum Complexity (CMSC858L, Spring 2023)
- Introduction to Quantum Information Processing (CMSC657, Fall 2021)
- Cryptography (CMSC456, MATH456, ENEE456, Fall 2025)
- Advanced Topics in Theory of Computing; Quantum Error Correction and Fault-Tolerance (CMSC858G, Spring 2026)
Affiliated Research Centers
RQS


