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IonQ co-founders named to national quantum initiative advisory committee
Daily Record Staff//September 2, 2020
IonQ co-founders named to national quantum initiative advisory committee
//September 2, 2020
Jungsang Kim, co-founder and chief technology officer of College Park-based quantum computing company IonQ, and Christopher Monroe, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, were named to the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (NQIAC).
Created by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and U.S. Department of Energy, the committee’s goal is to ensure continued American leadership in quantum information science.
The appointment is a recognition of Kim and Monroe’s pioneering work in the quantum computing field and comes at a time when investing in quantum computing technology is more important than ever. IonQ’s trapped-ion quantum computers have demonstrated unmatched ability, demonstrating performance benchmarks that no other quantum computer has been able to match. IonQ is the only entity with more than one representative on the committee.
