Andrew Dzurak is an Australian physicist and engineer, known for his work in quantum computing. He is the CEO and founder of Diraq,[1] a start-up that is developing a scalable quantum computer based on single electronspins in silicon. He is a Scientia Professor in Quantum Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW),[2] an ARC Laureate Fellow and a member of the Executive Board of the Sydney Quantum Academy.[3]
In 1994, Dzurak took up a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship in the School of Physics at the UNSW, followed by an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 1996. He was the founding Director (2007–2022) of ANFF–NSW, the NSW node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility.[2][4] He was also instrumental in setting up the ARC Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, which was established by Professor Robert Clark in January 2000, and now maintains the world’s largest focused collaboration on silicon-based quantum computing.[1][4]
In the late-1990s, Andrew began research on single-atom spin-based quantum bits (qubits). Together with his colleague Andrea Morello, Dzurak demonstrated real-time readout of the quantum state of a single electron spin in silicon in 2010,[5] followed by the world’s first silicon qubits in 2012.[6][7] Since then, Dzurak has developed a naturally scalable qubit technology by reconfiguring the CMOS transistors that make up standard silicon processor chips.[8][9][10][11][12]
Diraq
In May 2022, Dzurak founded Diraq to commercialize the patent portfolio he had developed at UNSW and to work toward building a utility-scale quantum computer.[4][13][14][15][16]
Awards
H S Carslaw Memorial Scholarship, University of Sydney (1987)
Cambridge Australia Scholarship, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust (1988)
Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship, University of New South Wales (1994)
ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Australian Research Council (1996)
↑ Morello, Andrea; Pla, Jarryd J.; Zwanenburg, Floris A.; Chan, Kok W.; Tan, Kuan Y.; Huebl, Hans; Möttönen, Mikko; Nugroho, Christopher D.; Yang, Changyi; van Donkelaar, Jessica A.; Alves, Andrew D. C.; Jamieson, David N.; Escott, Christopher C.; Hollenberg, Lloyd C. L.; Clark, Robert G. (2010-10-26). "Single-shot readout of an electron spin in silicon". Nature. 467 (7316): 687–691. arXiv:1003.2679. doi:10.1038/nature09392. ISSN1476-4687.
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