Andrea RuffinoAndrea Ruffino received the B.Sc. degree (cum laude) in Engineering Physics from Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2013, the triple joint M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in Micro and Nanotechnologies for Integrated Systems from Politecnico di Torino, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), Grenoble, France, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2015 and the Ph.D. degree in Microsystems and Microelectronics from EPFL in 2021.
From 2015 to 2016, he was with Hypres, Inc., Elmsford, NY, USA, working on the design of superconducting readout circuits in rapid single flux quantum (RSFQ) technology for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors. In 2016, he joined EPFL as a Research Assistant and from 2017 to 2018 he was a Visiting Research Assistant at Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. Since 2016 he has been with EPFL, where he is working on cryogenic CMOS electronics for qubit readout and control, focusing on single-chip cryo-CMOS transceivers for scalable silicon quantum computers. His main research interests include analog and RF integrated circuit design, cryogenic CMOS electronics for quantum computing applications, superconducting electronics and sensors.
Dr. Ruffino was also among the Best Student Paper Award finalists at the IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium 2019 and he is a recipient of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award for 2020-2021.
Daniel OberliDaniel Oberli was born in Switzerland in 1957. After completing his undergraduate education in the Physics department at EPFL he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to enter the graduate program in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics in 1988. His thesis topic was the intersubband dynamics of photo excited carriers in two-dimensional semiconductor structures, for which he developed an original experimental approach based on time-resolved Raman scattering of electronic excitations. From 1988 to 1989, he was a post-doctoral fellow at AT&T Bell laboratories, where he pursued his research interests on the ultra fast time-resolved optical properties of semiconductor microstructures under the leadership of Dr. J. Shah. In 1990, he joined the Walter Schottky Institute of the Technical University of Munich, where he evidenced and studied Fano resonances in the optical excitation spectra of semiconductor quantum wells. Since 1994, he has been in the Institute of Physics of the School of Basic Sciences at EPFL. His main research activities include the electronic and optical properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures, in particular quantum wires, quantum wells and dots, Raman scattering by phonons and electronic excitations in nanostructures and the radiative properties of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, including the dynamics of exciton-polaritons and their interactions. He is a member of the American Physical Society.
Yatao PengYatao Peng received the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering at 2015 from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, with a focus on the multi-band/wideband RF front-ended circuits in wireless communication station. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the University of Macau, Macau, China, where he was involved in CMOS millimeter-wave integretaed circuit design. From 2017 to 2018, he was with the National University of Singapore, Singapore, where he served as a Researcher to develop CMOS phase-shifter modules for hybrid integrated flexible electronic systems.
He is currently a Scientist with the Advanced Quantum Architecture Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. His current research interests include CMOS cryogenic RF circuits for quantum computer application.