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Daniel Gottesman

Brin Family Professor in Theoretical Computer Science and Co-Director

Leadership, Fellow
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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

  • A photo of a large group of people affiliated with QuICS.

    QuICS Celebrates 10 Years of Research and Scholarship

    March 14, 2025

    The event underscored the many activities and successes of QuICS, while also examining what the next decade and beyond might hold for quantum computing and quantum information science.

  • A photo of Carl Miller.

    Miller Takes on New Role as Co-Director of QuICS

    March 14, 2025

    Carl Miller says he is honored to help lead QuICS and is eager to incentivize the center’s growth in quantum information science.

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    QuICS-Affiliated Researchers Active at QIP 2025

    February 20, 2025

    QuICS-affiliated researchers are involved in more than a dozen of the accepted talks, with a QuICS faculty member presenting a workshop tutorial that precedes the main conference.

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