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Shyam Shankar

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: 
MER 2.206N
EER 4.878
Phone: 
(512) 232-6123
(512) 232-8115

Shyam Shankar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Shankar is developing superconducting and semiconducting quantum devices and circuits for applications in quantum information science and engineering.

Dr. Shankar received his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2004 and his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2010. From 2010, he has been working as a postdoc and subsequently as a research scientist at Yale University in the Applied Physics department. In this capacity, he has lead a line of experiments that demonstrate the underlying principles for the design of large-scale quantum computers. These experiments include a demonstration of the quantum back-action of dispersive readout, the stabilization of entanglement with measurement-based and autonomous feedback, as well as the generation of modular remote entanglement between two superconducting qubits. He has also been involved in the development of quantum-limited amplifiers and non-reciprocal devices. He will start a new group at Austin focussed on these research themes from fall 2019.