After a few years as a nuclear submarine electrician, involvement in experiments which characterize the aging process of our nuclear reactor core, in collaboration with Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, compelled me to transition into the physics community.

This transition was facilitated by New York University’s Applied Physics department in Brooklyn, where I studied topics such as medical imaging, digital signal processing, microwave circuits and antennas; and by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, where I worked on the Quantum Voltage Project, developing and characterizing quantum-based DC and AC Josephson voltage standards.

In 2018, turning my attention to quantum information, I joined RSL at Yale. Here my primary focus is the experimental study of dielectric loss: its origin, the role this loss plays in degrading the coherence lifetime of superconducting qubits, and how this degradation can be mitigated.