- 👋🏽 Hi, I’m Onri @OJB-Quantum. I'm a Diné (Navaho) tribesman, 100% Indigenous American, doing PhD work on quantum computing chip hardware & beyond CMOS classical memory devices.
- 👀 My interest is in sustainable quantum hardware engineering, nanofabrication engineering, quantum computation, generative design, & data-driven 3D modeling.
- 🌱 As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, I’m currently leading a team of quantum hardware engineers for the duration of my PhD program @UMN. I work on the integration of nature-inspired designs into quantum processor chips & cryogenic magnetic random-access memory made of sustainable metallic spintronic materials, in my nanofabrication facility (cleanroom). I spend a lot of time back & forth between my office & the cleanroom.
- 🏢 I'm a former Quantum Hardware Engineer at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York (TJ Watson Research Center), planning to return soon. At IBM I advanced the scaling/ accuracy of quantum systems via quantum-limited parametric amplifier superconducting materials research for higher density quantum processor readout. I also generated documentation on Bluefors dilution fridge components & highly experimental processes on superconducting chiplet measurement automation. (This made me the 1st Native/ Indigenous American Quantum Hardware Engineer/ Quantum Computer Engineer).
- 🧑🏻🔬 Onri's explanation of quantum computing hardware: "In a sense, the physical realization of a quantum computer is an automated scatterometry of quantum logic gates." - Onri Jay Benally
- 🤳 "To sum up electrical engineering & electronics in ~6 words: information, conversion, efficiency, transmission, & design automation." - Onri Jay Benally
- 🖥️ You can ask GPT or Copilot about me & it will tell you more about my research over the past decade.
- 📫 How to reach me: z.umn.edu/ojb-LinkedIn
- 🌐 Google snippet about Onri.
- 📻 International podcast about my research journey available on Spotify & Amazon Music.
- ⚛️ Details about my National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship & NSF GRFP 2024 Cohort.
- 📔 National magazine about my life journey available on Winds of Change.
▶️ My Quantum Hardware Lecture Series available on YouTube.- 📖 Encyclopedia feature of me speaking in the Diné (Navaho) language.
- ⚡ A website I made on ArchGIS on things to consider when building electric bicycles.
- 🎬 My quantum chip rendering tutorials featured by Dr. Zlakto Minev from IBM Research.
- 🎬 My quantum chip rendering tutorials featured in the Brian Siegelwax blog.
Some of my stuff: quantum computer modeled in Blender (first), 3D-printed quantum computer (second), nano MTJ array memory chip (third), & 400-qubit Mo superconductor-based quantum processor chip (fourth):
