Alejandro Simon
Research Assistant
PhD Student, EECS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
66 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 36-245
Cambridge, MA 02139
alejansi@mit.edu
Alejandro Simon is a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT. He received his B.Sc. in Physics and B.A. in Computer Science degrees from Yale University in 2023. He has prior research experience in nanomagnetic systems, biophotonics, and quantum algorithms. His current work in the QNN group is focused on superconducting nanowire electronics and detectors.
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