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Hanhee Paik is a South Korean experimental quantum computing researcher who works for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where she helps develop superconducting devices for storing and operating on qubits.

Education and career

Paik has a master's degree from Yonsei University in South Korea, and completed a doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park.

After postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland Laboratory for Physical Sciences, she took a position at Yale University. In 2012 she left academia to become a researcher for BNN Technology PLC, and in 2014 she began her present position at IBM research. At IBM, her work has been included in the IBM Quantum Experience and IBM Q System One projects.

Recognition

In 2021, Paik was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Forum on Industrial & Applied Physics, "for pioneering a novel superconducting qubit architecture that catalyzed the commercialization of superconducting quantum computing, and for contributions to advance quantum computing research in the industry".

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