John Preskill

Founding Team Member & Advisor

United States

John Preskill is the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech and a founding-team member of Oratomic. He coined the term quantum supremacy in 2012 and has worked on fault-tolerant quantum computing theory for decades. Preskill founded the Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) at Caltech in 2000, which became the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) in 2011, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center. He holds an A.B. from Princeton (1975) and an A.M. and PhD from Harvard (1976, 1980), and joined Caltech's faculty in 1983.

Expertise

• Quantum Computing
• Quantum Information Theory
• Quantum Error Correction
• Theoretical Physics