Isaac Chuang

Isaac Chuang is the Julius A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics at MIT. His research interests include how physical systems can represent and process information and how nature can be understood in terms of information and computation. Chuang is a pioneer in the field of quantum information science. His experimental realization of two, three, five, and seven quantum bit quantum computers using nuclear spins in molecules provided the first laboratory demonstrations of many important quantum algorithms, including Shor’s quantum factoring algorithm. The error correction, algorithmic cooling, and entanglement manipulation techniques he developed provide new ways to obtain complete quantum control over light and matter, and lay a foundation for possible large-scale quantum information processing systems. Chuang earned a SB and SM in electrical engineering from MIT and a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Selected Publications

• Burke, T. J., Shi, X., Sinanan-Singh, J., Chuang, I. L., & Chiaverini, J. (2025). Spontaneous Raman scattering from metastable states of Ba+. Physical Review A, 112(3), 033107.
• Martyn, J. M., Rossi, Z. M., Cheng, K. Z., Liu, Y., & Chuang, I. L. (2025). Parallel quantum signal processing via polynomial factorization. Quantum, 9, 1834.
• Liu, Y., Martyn, J. M., Sinanan-Singh, J., Smith, K. C., Girvin, S. M., & Chuang, I. L. (2025). Toward mixed analog-digital quantum signal processing: Quantum AD/DA conversion and the Fourier transform. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 73, 3641–3655.

Media

• November 10, 2025: MIT News, Leading quantum at an inflection point
• October 18, 2023: MIT News, MIT receives major National Science Foundation grant for quantum science
• August 31, 2020: MIT News, MIT partners with national labs on two new National Quantum Information Science Research Centers