Graeme Smith
Smith
I am an assistant professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where I am also an Associate Fellow of JILA. I am a member of JILA’s Atomic and Molecular Optical Theory group. Before starting my current position last summer, I was a Research Staff Member at IBM as part of the Physics of Information group, where I also did a postdoc. I was previously a Research Associate in Computer Science at the University of Bristol. I got my PhD in Physics from Caltech, working at the Institute for Quantum Information and was an undergraduate at the University of Toronto.
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