{"id":1557,"date":"2025-05-28T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mit-physics.lndo.site\/?post_type=faculty&#038;p=1557"},"modified":"2025-05-28T09:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:15:18","slug":"aram-harrow","status":"publish","type":"faculty","link":"https:\/\/physics.mit.edu\/faculty\/aram-harrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Aram Harrow &#8217;01 PhD &#8217;05"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Theoretical quantum information science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quantum algorithms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The role of quantum information in many-body physics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biographical Sketch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Aram Harrow grew up in Michigan before attending MIT for his undergraduate (math and physics, 2001) and graduate (physics, 2005) degrees. He then served as a lecturer in the math and computer science departments of the University of Bristol for five years, and as a research assistant professor at the University of Washington for two years. In 2013, he joined the MIT Physics department as an assistant professor. 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