Isaac Chuang

{{Short description|American electrical engineer and physicist}}

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| fields = Electrical engineering, Physics

| workplaces = MIT
IBM

University of California Berkeley
Los Alamos National Laboratory

| alma_mater = Stanford University
MIT

| doctoral_advisor = Yoshihisa Yamamoto{{Cite web | url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/yamamotogroup/YY-HP/member.html | title=Yoshihisa Yamamoto | access-date=2010-01-27 | archive-date=2012-12-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202063537/http://www.stanford.edu/group/yamamotogroup/YY-HP/member.html | url-status=dead }}

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| known_for = NMR quantum computing
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

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| awards = American Physical Society Fellow (2010)
MIT Technology Review TR100 (1999)

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| website = http://feynman.mit.edu/ike/homepage/index.html

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Isaac L. Chuang is an American electrical engineer and physicist. He leads the quanta research group at the Center for Ultracold Atoms at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).{{Cite web | url=http://feynman.mit.edu/ike/homepage/ | title=Home Page: Isaac Chuang}} He received his undergraduate degrees in physics (1990) and electrical engineering (1991) and master's in electrical engineering (1991) at MIT.Copsey, D.; Oskin, M.; Impens, F.; Metodiev, T.; Cross, A.; Chong, F.T.; Chuang, I.L.; Kubiatowicz, J., "Toward a scalable, silicon-based quantum computing architecture," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol.9, no.6, pp. 1552–1569, Nov.-Dec. 2003, {{doi|10.1109/JSTQE.2003.820922}} In 1997 he received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Chuang is one of the pioneers of NMR quantum computing. Since 2003, Chuang has focused his attention on trapped ion approaches to quantum computing, as the field of liquid state NMR quantum computing fell out of favor due to limitations on its scalability beyond tens of qubits due to noise.

During his time at MIT in 2008, Chuang was the principal investigator in establishing a pioneering doctoral-study program in the growing field of quantum information science (QIS). MIT was awarded a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation{{Cite web |date=2025-04-07 |title=NSF - National Science Foundation |url=https://www.nsf.gov/ |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=www.nsf.gov |language=en}} and the new graduate training program, sought to nurture a new generation of students, from education through employment, to become tomorrow's quantum information scientists and engineers.{{Cite web |date=2008-08-04 |title=MIT awarded $3M for training program in quantum information science |url=https://news.mit.edu/2008/quantum-0804 |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology |language=en}}

Chuang is also widely known for having authored Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, one of the primary reference books in the field with Michael Nielsen, cited by more than 60,000.{{cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=QKyb_9oAAAAJ&citation_for_view=QKyb_9oAAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C |title=Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (10th Anniversary Edition) |last1=Michael A Nielsen |last2=Isaac L Chuang |date=2010 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date= 3 August 2021}}

While employed at IBM in 1999, Chuang was to be featured in a film by Errol Morris, commissioned by IBM for an internal conference on the occasion of the year 2000. The conference was cancelled and the film was never completed; however, [http://www.errolmorris.com/content/aborted/projects_ibm.html excerpts] including Chuang can be viewed at Morris's personal web site.

In 2015, he led a study showing that some students on the edX platform cheat by creating multiple accounts and "harvesting" correct answers.{{cite web |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/9/3/cameo-cheating-method-mooc/ |title=EdX Users Cheat Through MOOC-Specific Method, Study Says |newspaper=Thecrimson.com |access-date= February 2, 2017}}