Patrick Dreher
IBM Quantum Innovation Center Chief Scientist; Research Professor of Computer Science
Research Professor
Engineering Building II (EB2) 2302
Bio
Dr. Patrick Dreher is the Chief Scientist of the IBM Quantum Hub at NC State as well research professor in the department of computer science and associate faculty in the department of physics.
As chief scientist, Dreher identifies strategic research opportunities for quantum computing at NC State and guides the development of curriculum and education programs.
Dreher has over 25 years of research experience in the applications of computer technologies to science and engineering research problems. Prior to NC State, he has held both senior scientific and R&D management positions at MIT, and has served in similar roles in both government research labs and industry.
Dreher’s scientific interests span the spectrum from potential quantum computing applications for fundamental physics to interfaces with computer science and areas of quantitative finance.
Dreher received his doctorate in physics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Business Administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Education
Ph.D. Physics University of Illinois-Urbana 1991
Master's Physics University of Chicago 1980
Master's Business Administration Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1977
Bachelor's Physics, Minor in Mathematics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1975
Area(s) of Expertise
Quantum Computing
Publications
- Applying the noiseless extrapolation error mitigation protocol to calculate real-time quantum field theory scattering phase shifts , PHYSICAL REVIEW D (2024)
- Measuring qubit stability in a gate-based NISQ hardware processor , QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING (2023)
- Indexed improvements for real-time trotter evolution of a (1 , QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (2021)
- Real-time quantum calculations of phase shifts using wave packet time delays , PHYSICAL REVIEW D (2021)
- Programming Quantum Computers: A Primer with IBM Q and D-Wave Exercises , PROCEEDINGS OF THE 24TH SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PARALLEL PROGRAMMING (PPOPP '19) (2019)
- Cost Analysis Comparing HPC Public Versus Private Cloud Computing , Communications in Computer and Information Science (2017)
- Embedding Cloud Computing inside Supercomputer Architectures , PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING AND SERVICES SCIENCE, VOL 2 (CLOSER) (2016)
- PageRank pipeline benchmark: Proposal for a holistic system benchmark for big-data platforms , Ieee international symposium on parallel and distributed processing (2016)
- Toward implementation of a software defined cloud on a supercomputer , 2014 ieee international conference on cloud engineering (ic2e) (2014)