United StatesChristopher Monroe
Monroe is the Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor at Duke University in Physics and Electrical Engineering, and one of the world's foremost experts in trapped-ion quantum computing. In 1995, with Nobel laureate David Wineland, he co-led the team that demonstrated the first quantum logic gate using trapped ions. He subsequently built research groups at the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland, demonstrating the first ion trap on a semiconductor chip and pioneering quantum networking with photon-linked qubits. He co-founded IonQ in 2015 with Jungsang Kim, and IonQ became the first publicly listed pure-play quantum computing company in 2021.
