Biographical Information:
Ph.D. in Physics, 1997, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
Daniel Lidar received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in '97, where he worked on scattering theory and disorder. He was awarded Fulbright and Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowships to pursue research in quantum computation at UC Berkeley, where he worked till '00. He then joined the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, where he directed and co-founded the Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Control. He was promoted to Associate Professor in '04 and has held cross-appointments in Physics and Mathematics. Lidar joined the EE Department of the Viterbi School of Engineering, USC, in July 2005, with a cross appointment in Chemistry. His research focuses on the problem of controlling open quantum systems, with a particular emphasis on quantum computers. His work revolves around various aspects of quantum information theory, including quantum algorithms, the theory of open quantum systems, quantum phase transitions and entanglement. Among his awards, Lidar was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007 for his contributions to the theory of quantum information processing,
is a Senior Member of the IEEE, was awarded a Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 2003, and was named one of the Top 20 Researchers Under 40 by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in 2002. Lidar is the Director and co-founding member of the USC Center for
Quantum Information Science and Technology (CQIST).
