Quantum Computing Professor, Researcher Yacoby Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
“We are honoring the excellence of these individuals, celebrating what they have achieved so far, and imagining what they will continue to accomplish,” said David Oxtoby, President of the American Academy. “The past year has been replete with evidence of how things can get worse; this is an opportunity to illuminate the importance of art, ideas, knowledge, and leadership that can make a better world.”
Amir Yacoby
Yacoby holds appointments in the Physics Department and at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and is a member of the National Academy of Science.
Yacoby’s research explores topological quantum computing, interacting electrons in layered materials, spin-based quantum computing and the development of novel quantum sensing probes such as scanning single electron transistors and color...
