Bill Fefferman

Bill Fefferman is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Fefferman’s research explores the power of quantum computers in both the near-term and the indefinite future. Before coming to Chicago he held research positions at the University of Maryland and NIST and at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in computer science in the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award (2020), a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (2018), and a Google Scholar Award (2022).