Ben Criger

Ben Criger has been working in the field of quantum computing since 2008. Ben began their career as a Research Assistant at the University of Waterloo, where they investigated optimal encoding for protection against error side-channels in quantum error correction, developed software for automatic generation of quantum code encoding/decoding circuits, and performed numerical searches for enhanced transmission of classical information through many copies of a quantum channel. Ben also served as a Teaching Assistant for Implementations of Quantum Computing.

In 2013, Ben took a role as a Postdoctoral Researcher at RWTH Aachen University, where they investigated direct measurement of multi-body operators in superconducting qubits and analysed networked few-qubit cluster-based architectures to determine fault tolerance.

In 2016, Ben joined QuTech as a Postdoctoral Researcher, where they communicated scientific questions and results to an engineering group in the QuTech collaboration, examined remote entanglement-generation schemes in superconducting qubits, and developed alternate high-speed decoders for quantum error-correcting codes.

In 2019, Ben moved to Horizon Quantum Computing as a Quantum Computing Scientist.

Most recently, in 2021, Ben joined Cambridge Quantum as a Senior Research Scientist and Research Scientist for Quantum Error Correction.

Ben Criger completed their Bachelor of Science in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at McMaster University from 2004 to 2008. Ben then went on to earn their Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics from the University of Waterloo from 2008 to 2013.