Jamison R. Stevens

Prior to joining Finnegan, Jamison was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow and an applied physics Ph.D. student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where his research pertained to long-distance connectivity of superconducting qubits for quantum computation. During his doctorate program, Jamison earned his master’s degree in electrical engineering, and he later took leave from his Ph.D. program to assist with patent prosecution efforts pertaining to quantum computation, radio frequency (RF) and microwave technologies, optical technologies, and semiconductors.

While pursuing his undergraduate degrees, Jamison double majored in electrical engineering and economics and worked with several technologies. He initially researched clean energy policy and semiconductors for thermoelectric applications, after which he transitioned to researching nonlinear optics with optical microresonators. During his summer internships, Jamison worked with computational electromagnetics for RADAR components and hardware cybersecurity for integrated circuits.

As part of his successful NSF Fellowship proposal, Jamison detailed a research plan to improve linewidth broadening in chip-based stimulated Brillouin Lasers on optical microresonators. His graduate research in quantum computation involved the design, simulation, and measurement of metamaterial waveguides as a quantum bus, mediating long-distance connectivity of superconducting qubits.