Patrick Dreher
Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chief Scientist, NC State IBM Quantum Computing Initiative
Engineering Building II (EB2) 2302
Bio
Dr. Patrick Dreher holds appointments as a Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an Affiliate Faculty in the Departments of Physics at NC State University.
In 2018 NC State became the first university in North America to establish an IBM Quantum Hub as part of the global IBM Quantum Network. This Network is a collaboration between IBM and top Fortune 500 companies, national research labs and leading universities to advance quantum computing. In January 2019, the University appointed him as the Chief Scientist for the NC State IBM Quantum Hub tasked with advancing NC State’s quantum computing research and education initiatives.
He received his B.S. in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. in physics from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He also earned an M.B.A. from Rensselaer with a concentration in R&D management.
Dr. Dreher has over 25 years of research experience in the application of computing technologies to science and engineering research problems. His work in cloud computing has included the development of early techniques for embedding cloud systems within supercomputers to fully exploit their HPC hardware capabilities. His current research interests are focused on error mitigation and error suppression in quantum computing systems and the application of quantum computing to problems in high energy, nuclear and many-body condensed matter physics problems.
Dr. Dreher has also held significant R&D management positions in academia at MIT and NC State, in the Department of Energy (DoE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and in industry supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) high-performance computing programs in science and engineering. He has served on numerous peer review panels for the Department of Energy, the DoD HPC Modernization Program and the National Science Foundation including the NSF Taskforce Advisory Committee on Campus Cyberinfrastructure.
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
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)