Assistant Professor of EECS & Physics, UC Berkeley
Faculty Scientist, Materials Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab
Director, Quantum Coherent Systems Program, Berkeley Lab
Location: 572 Cory Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94708
Contact: alp@berkeley.edu
Biography
Alp Sipahigil is the Ping & Amy Chao Family Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Faculty Scientist at the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and holds a joint appointment at UC Berkeley Physics.
He leads the Berkeley Quantum Devices Group which focuses on solid-state device research to advance quantum computation, communication and sensing. His group studies a wide range of physical systems including superconducting quantum circuits, color centers, integrated photonics and phononics.
Prior to joining Berkeley in 2021, he was an Institute for Quantum Information and Matter postdoctoral scholar at Caltech. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2017 and his B.S. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University in 2010.
Education
2017, PhD, Physics, Harvard University
2010, BS, Physics, Bogazici University
2010, BS, Electrical Engineering & Physics, Bogazici University