Co-Founder & Scientific Advisor

William D. Oliver

William D. Oliver is jointly appointed the Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He serves as the Director of the Center for Quantum Engineering and as Associate Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), as well as Principal Investigator for the Engineering Quantum Systems Group (EQuS). He provides programmatic and technical leadership targeting the development of quantum and classical high-performance computing technologies. Will’s research interests include the materials growth, fabrication, design, and measurement of superconducting qubits, as well as the development of cryogenic packaging and control electronics involving cryogenic CMOS and single-flux quantum digital logic.

Since 2022, Will has served as a member of the White House’s National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (NQIAC), which makes recommendations for the President, Congress, the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Subcommittee on Quantum Information Science, and the NSTC Subcommittee on Economic and Security Implications of Quantum Science. From 2003-2023, he also worked at Lincoln Laboratory with the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group, where he was instrumental in growing the quantum group to its present levels.

Will is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He also serves on the US Committee for Superconducting Electronics and is an IEEE Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC) Board Member.

Will received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and B.A. in Japanese from the University of Rochester.