Commercialisation of Research in a University Environment

FLEET and CASLEO Members only

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Scientia Professor Andrew Dzurak (UNSW) will share his insights on commercialisation of university research, based on his significant experience at the Australian National Fabrication Facility, UNSW, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology.

This discussion is co-presented by FLEET and CASLEO (Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid based Electronics and Optics) at UNSW, and will be hosted by:

• Dr Torben Daeneke (RMIT), FLEET Chair Industry-Relations Committee
• Prof Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh (UNSW), CASLEO

Scientia Professor Andrew Dzurak is one of world’s leading experts in silicon-based quantum computing.  He is a Scientia Professor at UNSW, Sydney, an ARC Laureate Fellow, and is Director of the NSW node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility.

Following a PhD in Cambridge in 1993, Andrew was a key participant in the establishment of the ARC Centre for Quantum Computer Technology by Professor Bob Clark, which now maintains the world’s largest focused collaboration on silicon-based quantum computing.

Andrew, with colleague Andrea Morello, demonstrated the world’s first silicon quantum bits (qubits) in 2012, and more recently developed a new qubit technology by reconfiguring the ubiquitous CMOS transistors that make up all of today’s silicon processor chips.

He leads a team at UNSW focused on the development of a quantum processor that can be manufactured using CMOS technology which is funded by the Australian Research Council, the US Army Research Office and UNSW-Sydney.

He has published over 200 research papers including 15 papers in Science and Nature group journals, and is co-inventor on 12 patent families. Andrew received the 2011 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, and his silicon qubit work was selected by Physics World, UK as one of the world’s Top Ten Scientific Breakthroughs for 2015.