POTUS 2018 PATRICIPANTS & ATTENDEES

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	Rana Adhikari Professor of Experimental Physics at Caltech. Gravitational Radiation, Quantum Mechanics, Cosmology. Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology and LIGO researcher. Explores the frontiers of fundamental physics using ultra-sensitive experiments.
	Frances Arnold Frances Hamilton Arnold is the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where she studies evolution and its applications in science, medicine, chemicals and energy.
	Troy Baker American actor and musician known for portraying the lead characters in various video games.
	Barry Barish Barry Clark Barish is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate. He is a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. He is a leading expert on gravitational waves. Former Director of LIGO.
	Roger Blandford Professor of Physics at Stanford University and at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Fundamental work on rotating black holes and their astrophysical consequences.
	Sergio Boixo Quantum researcher at Google AI. His research is related to quantum computation and quantum information.
	Raphael Bousso Raphael Bousso is an Israeli-German theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is a professor at the Department of Physics, UC Berkeley. He is known for the Bousso bound on the information content of the universe.
	Fernando Brandao Brazilian physicist and computer scientist working on quantum information and quantum computation. He is currently the Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. He was awarded the 2013 European Quantum Information Young Investigator Award for his highly appraised achievements in entanglement theory, quantum complexity theory, and quantum many-body physics, which combine dazzling mathematical ability and impressive physical insight.
	Joe Broz Leads SRI’s Advanced Technology and Systems Division (ATSD) in government business development and technical and business strategy.
	Natalia Bruno Postdoctoral Researcher n the ICFOnest International Postdoctoral Program. Her research area is quantum optics and is in the Atomic Quantum Optics group.
	Garnet Chan Bren Professor of Chemistry at Caltech. His research interests are correlated quantum mechanical phenomena in chemistry and physics. Chan’s research lies at the interface of theoretical chemistry, condensed matter physics, and quantum information theory, and is concerned with quantum many-particle phenomena and the numerical methods to simulate them.
	Xie Chen Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. She is interested in studying quantum mechanical systems with a large number of degrees of freedom and how the constituent degrees of freedom cooperate with each other to realize amazing emergent phenomena.
	Jasson Crockett and Corbin Reid Jasson Crockett is the Business Team Representative at the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development for the City of Los Angeles. Corbin Reid is an actress best known for her recurring role on How To Get Away With Murder.
	Jesse Dylan American film director, and the founder, CEO and creative director of the media production company Wondros.
	Manuel Endres Assistant Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is part of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter. His group conducts experimental and theoretical research at the emerging interface of AMO physics, quantum information, and quantum amny-body physics.
	Kathrine Faber Simon Ramo Professor of Materials Science at Caltech. She is interested in the fracture of brittle materials and mechanisms by which such materials can be toughened and strengthened through composite strategies and residual stresses, often using synchrotron radiation for internal stress measurement.
	Andrei Faraon Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Caltech. Faraon's research interests are in solid state quantum optics and nano-photonics. Applications include quantum information processing, on-chip optical signal processing at ultra-low power levels, energy efficient sensors, bio-photonics.
	Edward Henry Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been the Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT since 2004. He made contributions to particle physics, general relativity and astroparticle physics before turning to his current interest, quantum computation.
	Andre Fuetsch President – AT&T Labs and Chief Technology Officer. Andre Fuetsch is responsible for delivering the architecture and design of AT&T’s future networking evolution. This transformation will utilize software-defined networking and network function virtualization to deliver products and services to the customer with greatly reduced time to market and significant operational efficiencies.
	Jason Gallicchio Assistant Professor of experimental cosmology at Harvard
	Vince Gerardis Television and Film Producer
	Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia Lead Quantum Architect at PsiQ Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia works on quantum foundation and technologies and specifically on optical quantum computing and error correction. She received her PhD from Imperial College London and has ventured from academia to industry targeting quantum computing and joining a startup in the Bay area.
	Yewon Gim Senior Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Foundry
	Viviana Gradinaru Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering at Caltech. Dr. Gradinaru’s research interests focus on developing tools and methods for neuroscience (optogenetic actuators and sensors; tissue clearing and imaging; gene delivery vehicles) and using them to characterize circuits underlying locomotion, reward, and sleep, with the goal to inform deep brain stimulation (DBS) and better understand the underlying mechanisms of action.
	Anna Grassellino Scientist and Deputy Head of Technical Division at Fermilab. She and Alexander Romanenko were awarded the 2017 USPAS Accelerator Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology. Working on quantum technologies at Fermilab. She was awarded the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers in 2016.
	Saikat Guha Associate Professor at The University of Arizona. His background lies at the intersection of information theory and quantum optics. His research interests lie in investigating fundamental quantum limits of photonic information processing with applications to optical communications, imaging, sensing and computation.
	Fiona A. Harrison Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at Caltech, Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics at Caltech and the Principal Investigator for NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array mission.
	JoAnne Hewett Theoretical particle physicist on the faculty of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where she is a professor in the Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, and Associate Lab Director of the Fundamental Physics Division.
	Jack Hidary Jack focuses on AI and physics at Alphabet/Google X. He is a technology researcher and entrepreneur. Hidary has collaborated with MIT on a series of papers focused on deep learning. In particular, the papers address the generalization of deep learning networks.
	Danny Hillis American inventor, engineer, mathematician, entrepreneur, and author. Danny Hillis co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, Applied Proteomics, Applied Inventions and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. He is Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at the University of Southern California.
	Alan Ho Product Manager at Google. Building a Quantum Computer. Product Management and Business Development lead for Google’s Quantum AI Lab.
	Phil Hoetling Producer for Magazine Projects
	Veronika Hubeny Physicist and academic who specializes in string theory and quantum gravity. Since 2015, she has been a professor in the Department of Physics of University of California, Davis. Previously, she was Professor of Physics at Durham University, where she had worked from 2005 to 2015.
	Travis Humble Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Director of the lab's Quantum Computing Institute. He received his doctorate in theoretical chemistry from the University of Oregon. He leads the Quantum Computing Team in the Quantum Information Science Group. He is also an associate professor with the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education at the University of Tennessee and an Associate Editor for the Quantum Information Processing journal.
	Nick Hutzler Assistant Professor of Physics at Caltech. He earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Caltech in 2007, then switched to physics, earning his PhD from Harvard in 2014 and completing a postdoctoral fellowship, also at Harvard, in 2017. Hutzler uses tabletop experiments to study the fundamental particles and laws of nature.
	Daniel Jafferis Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Physics at Harvard. His research involves string theory, supersymmetric quantum field theory, and quantum gravity.
	Larry D. James Deputy Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in August 2013. At JPL he is the Laboratory's Chief Operating Officer responsible to the Director for the day-to-day management of JPL's resources and activities. This includes managing the Laboratory's solar system exploration, Mars, astronomy, physics, Earth science, interplanetary network programs, and all business operations.
	Anup Jogani Beverly Hills jeweler
	Anton Kapustin Theoretical physicist and the Earle C. Anthony Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, and a former member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University.
	Miryung Kim Director of Software Engineering and Analysis Laboratory at UCLA, developing program analysis algorithms and development tools.
	Adrienne Kolb Co-author of “Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience”. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics Center for the History of Physics, and the History of Science Society.
	Edward (Rocky) Kolb Dean of the Division of the Physical Sciences and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the College and member of the Enrico Fermi Institute and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. He currently serves on the boards of the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Adler Planetarium.
	Boris Korzh Microdevices Postdoctoral Scholar at JPL.
	Prem Kumar Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern. Expert in Quantum communications and quantum information processing/computing, Quantum sensing and imaging, and Fiber-optic communications.
	Nikolai Lauk Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics at Caltech.
	Stefan Leichenauer Research Scientist at X Google.
	Daniel Lidar Professor of Electrical engineering, Chemistry, and Physics, and holds a Ph.D. in physics from the Hebrew University of  Jerusalem. He is the Director of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology, and is the Scientific Director of the USC-Lockheed Martin Center for Quantum Computing.
	Erik Lucero Staff Research Scientist on the Quantum A.I. team at Google.
	Mikhail Lukin Russian-American theoretical and experimental physicist and a professor at Harvard University. His research is in the areas of quantum optics and atomic physics.
	Anthony Lund Writer, Producer, and Director of the Science Channel’s Emmy nominated series, Through the Wormhole, hosted by Morgan Freeman. Co-creator of Light In The Void.
	Joseph Lykken Theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is the Deputy Director and Chief Research Officer of Fermilab.
	Chris Martin Assistant Director of Science Program Operations and Science Program Officer at Kavli Foundation.
	Masoud Mohseni Senior Research Scientist at Google, where he develops novel machine learning algorithms that fundamentally rely on quantum dynamics.
	Harmut Neven Scientist working in quantum computing, computer vision, robotics and computational neuroscience. He is best known for his work in face and object recognition and his contributions to quantum machine learning. He is currently Director of Engineering at Google where he is leading the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
	Hien Nguyen Visiting Associate in Physics at Caltech.
	Daniel Oblak Senior Research Coordinator in Quantum Communication and Cryptography Lab at the University of Calgary. His major research breakthroughs include proof-of-principle demonstration of non-destructive photon-number measurement, entanglement of over two-hundred ensembles each consisting of a billion atoms, and quantum teleportation over deployed fibres.
	Hirosi Ooguri Director and Fred Kavli Professor at Caltech, Director of Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe for University of Tokyo, President of Aspen Center for Physics. Theoretical physicist working on quantum field theory, quantum gravity, superstring theory, and their interfaces with mathematics.
	Dennis Overbye Science writer specializing in physics and cosmology. He has written two books: Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos and Einstein in Love. In 2014, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
	Oskar Painter John B. Braun Professor of Applied Physics and Physics; Fletcher Jones Foundation Co-Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute. His research interests are in nanophotonics, quantum optics, and optomechanics for applications in precision measurement and quantum information science.
	Joosep Pata Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics at Caltech.
	Pietro Perona Lederman Postdoctoral Fellow at Fermilab.
	Pietro Perona Pietro Perona is the Allan E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech and director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in Neuromorphic Systems Engineering.
	Pietro Perona CTO of Ready at Dawn Studios, an American video game developer.
	Maurizio Pierini Coordinator of the Physics Performances and Dataset area at CMS. Active on new physics searches and dark matter, both in SUSY and exotica working on machine learning approaches in high energy physics.
	John Preskill Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics and Director of the Institute of Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a two-time recipient of the Associated Students of Caltech Teaching Award. He has mentored more than 50 Ph.D. students and more than 45 postdoctoral scholars at Caltech, many of whom are now leaders in their research areas.
	Nicholas Pritzker Nicholas is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Hyatt Corporation. He also serves as Vice President of Pritzker Foundation, Endowment Fund. He has served on non-profit boards, including Vice Chairman of Conservation International and Chairman of the Grand Victoria Foundation. He is the Vice-Chairman of Clean Energy Trust and Chairman of the Libra Foundation. Sponsor of POTUS since its inception.
	Lisa Randall Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard. Her studies have made her among the most cited and influential theoretical physicists and she has received numerous awards and honors for her scientific endeavors. She earned her PhD from Harvard University and held professorships at MIT and Princeton University before returning to Harvard in 2001.
	Amir Raz Canadian Research Chair in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention at both the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and the SMBD Jewish General Hospital. He received his PhD in computation and information processing in the brain from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
	Markus Reymann Trained as an actor and successfully performed on screen and on stage for many years, and in major productions. He joined Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) in 2011. With TBA21 Chairperson and Founder Francesca Habsburg, he co-founded TBA21 Academy where he subsequently took on the role of a director.
	Rosi Riedl Rosi is a former Australian model and currently an art consultant and muse.
	Craig Robins Craig Robins is an American entrepreneur, real estate developer, art collector, and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Dacra Development, the co-founder and co-owner of Design Miami and developer of the Miami Design District.
	Alexander Romanenko Associate Head, Technical Division & SRF Program Manager at Fermilab. He and Anna Grassellino were awarded the 2017 USPAS Accelerator Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology. This work will benefit new accelerators being built for the DOE Office of Science.
	Thomas F. Rosenbaum President, Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair, and Professor of Physics at Caltech. He is the ninth president of Caltech. He is an expert on the quantum mechanical nature of materials, conducting research at Bell Laboratories, IBM Watson Research Center, and the University of Chicago, where he served as Vice President for Research and for Argonne National Laboratory and then provost, before moving to Caltech in 2014.
	Tomas Saraceno An artist trained as an architect, Tomás Saraceno deploys insights from engineering, physics, chemistry, aeronautics and materials science in his work.
	Matt Shaw Matt Shaw is the Microdevices Engineer of the Superconducting Devices and Materials Group at JPL. He is leading the development of superconducting nanowire single photon detector arrays for optical communication and quantum optics. He earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Southern California.
	Irfan Siddiqi Professor of Physics at the Quantum Nanoscience Laboratory at Berkeley. In 2006, he was awarded the George E. Valley, Jr. prize by the American Physical Society for the development of the Josephson bifurcation amplifier. In 2007, he was awarded the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the Hellman Family Faculty Fund, and the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Partnership Faculty Fund.
	Eva Silverstein Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and string theorist. She is best known for her work on early universe cosmology, developing the structure of inflation and its range of signatures, as well as extensive contributions to string theory and gravitational physics.
	Stefan Simchowitz Stefan is a Los Angeles-based art collector, art curator, and art advisor.
	Neil Sinlclair Postdoctoral Fellow in Marko Loncar’s group at Harvard; Intelligent Quantum Networks & Technologies Postdoctoral Fellow in Maria Spiropulu’s group at Caltech. He received his PhD from the University of Calgary studying quantum communications under Wolfgang Tittel and was awarded the University of Calgary Chancellor’s Graduate Medal.
	Panagiotis Spentzouris Head of Quantum Science Program at Fermilab, which includes simulation of quantum fieldtheories, development of algorithms for high-energy physics computational problems,teleportation experiments and applying qubit technologies to quantum sensors in high-energyphysics experiments.
	David Steuerman Science Program Officer at The Kavli Foundation. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles.
	Kim Swift American video game designer best known for her work at Valve with games such as Portal and Left 4 Dead. Swift was featured by Fortune as one of "30 Under 30" influential figures in the video game industry.
	Kip Thorne Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He is also an executive producer with Lynda Obst and worked on the feature film Interstellar. His principal current research is an exploration of the nonlinear dynamical behaviors of curved spacetime, using computer simulations and analytical calculations.
	Francesca Thyssen Bornemisza Art collector and the estranged wife of Karl von Habsburg, current head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
	Terry Tornek and Maria Tornek Mayor and First Lady of Pasadena.
	Doris Tsao Neuroscientist and professor of biology at Caltech. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the director of the T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience. She won a MacArthur "Genius" fellowship in 2018.
	Michael Turner Bruce V. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics at The University of Chicago; Enrico Fermi Institute; and the College. He is the Director at Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. His research focuses on the application of modern ideas in elementary-particle theory to cosmology and astrophysics.
	Mark Van Raamsdonk Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia since 2002.
	Jelena Vuckovic Professor of Electrical Engineering by courtesy of Applied Physics at Stanford University, where she leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab. She received her PhD from Caltech and worked as a Postdoc scholar at Stanford. She has received many awards for outstanding achievements in physics.
	Ronald Walsworth Faculty in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. He leads an interdisciplinary research group with a focus on developing precision measurement tools and applying them to important problems in both the physical and life sciences: from AMO physics, astrophysics and nanoscience to bioimaging, brain science and medical diagnostics.
	Ru Weerasuriya Founder of Ready at Dawn Studios, a video game developer.
	Austin Wintory American composer who composes scores for films and video games. He is known for composing the scores to the acclaimed video game titles Flow and Journey, the latter of which was nominated for a Grammy Award.
	Norman Yao Assistant professor at Berkley. My research interests lie at the interface between atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter, and quantum information science.
	Nan Yu Technical Group Supervisor at JPL, Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy at USC, and Lecturer in Applied Physics at Caltech.
	Jonas Zmuidzinas Merle Kingsley Professor of Physics at Caltech. His work is primarily at the intersection of astronomy, engineering, and physics. His group is involved in a wide variety of projects, including Herschel/HIFI, SOFIA, and of course the Caltech Submm Observatory (CSO) on Mauna Kea.
	Kathryn Zurek Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech and formerly at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.