Aug. 28, 2020 — The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the members of the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (NQIAC), which will counsel the Administration on ways to ensure continued American leadership in quantum information science (QIS).

“Today, the White House is proud to join DOE to announce the members of the NQIAC, an important step forward for the National Quantum Initiative. We look forward to engaging with the entire U.S. innovation ecosystem to advance quantum research and innovation for the betterment of our Nation,” said U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios.

“The Department of Energy is proud to join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the formation of the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee,” said Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar. “By organizing a way to harness our rapidly evolving quantum technologies, this committee will help transform and evolve applications for the future.”

President Trump established the NQIAC by Executive Order as part of the bipartisan National Quantum Initiative Act of 2018. The legislation accelerated QIS research and development investment and policy coordination across the Federal government.

The NQIAC will be co-chaired by Dr. Charles Tahan, OSTP Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science and Director of the National Quantum Coordination Office, and Dr. Kathryn Ann Moler, Dean of Research at Stanford University. Committee members represent industry, universities, Federal laboratories, and other Federal government agencies.

Members of the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee include:

• Professor Timothy A. Akers
  Assistant Vice President for Research Innovation and Advocacy
  Morgan State University
  Baltimore, MDProfessor Frederic T. Chong
• Seymour Goodman Professor
  University of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
• Dr. James S. Clarke
  Director, Quantum Hardware
  Intel Corporation
  Portland, OR
• Professor Kai-Mei C. Fu
  Associate Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Washington
  Seattle, WA
• Dr. Marissa Giustina
  Senior Research Scientist
  Google, LLC
  Goleta, CA
• Mr. Gilbert V. Herrera
  Laboratory Fellow
  Sandia National Laboratories
  Albuquerque, NM
• Professor Evelyn L. Hu
  Tarr-Coyne Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Science
  Harvard University
  Cambridge, MA
• Professor Jungsang Kim
  Co-Founder, IonQ
  Professor of ECE, Physics and Computer Science
  Duke University
  Durham, NC
• Dr. Joseph Lykken
  Deputy Director for Research
  Fermi National Accelerator Lab
  Batavia, IL
• Mr. Luke Mauritsen
  Founder/CEO
  Montana Instruments
  Bozeman, MT
• Professor Christopher R. Monroe
  University of Maryland
  College Park, MD
• Professor William D. Oliver
  Associate Professor EECE, Professor of Practice Physics, and MIT-Lincoln Laboratory Fellow
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MIT-Lincoln Laboratory
  Cambridge, MA
• Mr. Stephen S. Pawlowski
  Vice President of Advanced Computing Solutions
  Micron
  Beaverton, OR
• Professor John P. Preskill
  Director of the Institute for Quantum and Matter
  California Institute of Technology
  Pasadena, CA
• Dr. Kristen L. Pudenz
  Lead for Quantum Information Science
  Lockheed Martin
  Longmont, CO
• Dr. Chad T. Rigetti
  Founder and CEO
  Rigetti Computing
  Berkeley, CA
• Dr. Mark B. Ritter
  Chair, Physical Sciences Council
  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  Sherman, CT
• Professor Robert J. Schoelkopf
  Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics
  Yale University
  New Haven, CT
• Dr. Krysta M. Svore
  General Manager of Quantum Systems
  Microsoft Research
  Redmond, WA
• Professor Jinliu Wang
  Senior Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
  The State University of New York
  Albany, NY
• Dr. Jun Ye
  JILA Fellow, Adjoint Professor of Physics
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Boulder, CO

The first NQIAC meeting is tentatively scheduled for October 2020, with additional details to come.

Earlier this week, OSTP and DOE announced up to $625 million over five years for the establishment of five quantum research centers, delivering on the National Quantum Initiative Act’s call to stand up new QIS centers nationwide.

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Source:  White House Office of Science and Technology Policy