UT/ORNL Joint Faculty
Biography
Travis Humble is a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and director of the lab's Quantum Computing Institute, where he oversees research and development of quantum computing technologies. He received his doctorate in theoretical chemistry from the University of Oregon before coming to ORNL in 2005. Dr. Humble is an associate professor with the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education at the University of Tennessee, Associate Editor for the Quantum Information Processing journal, and Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing. At the intersection of computing, physics, and information, his research focuses on the design, development, and benchmarking of new quantum computing platforms.