Sabre Kais

Biography

Prior to joining the North Carolina State University faculty as Goodnight Distinguished Chair in Quantum Computing  in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sabre Kais was a distinguished professor of Chemistry and Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as a courtesy professor of Computer Science and Physics at Purdue University. He received his BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983, 1984, and 1989, respectively. From 1989 to 1994, he was a research associate in the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University. He joined Purdue University in 1994 as an Assistant Professor of Theoretical Chemistry. He has published over 280 papers in peer-reviewed journals. The research in his group is mainly devoted to quantum information and quantum computing for complex many-body systems. He was the director of the NSF-funded Center of Innovation on “Quantum Information for Quantum Chemistry” from 2010 to 2013 and is currently the director of the Center for Quantum Technology at Purdue. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including Molecular Physics, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Physical Chemistry, and Papers in Physics. He was an External Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute from 2013 to 2019. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Purdue University Faculty Scholar, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award Fellow, a recipient of the 2012 Sigma Xi Research Award, the 2019 Herbert Newby McCoy Award from Purdue University, and the Visiting Miller Professorship Award from Berkeley for 2024-2025.

Education

• Ph.D. 1989
  Chemical Physics
  Hebrew University
• Master's 1984
  Theoretical Chemistry
  Hebrew University
• Bachelor's 1983
  Chemistry
  Hebrew University