Aram Wettroth Harrow (born 1980) is a professor of

physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

in the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

's Center for Theoretical Physics. Harrow works in

quantum information science Quantum information science is a field that combines the principles of quantum mechanics with information theory to study the processing, analysis, and transmission of information. It covers both theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum phys ...

and

quantum computing A quantum computer is a computer that exploits quantum mechanical phenomena. On small scales, physical matter exhibits properties of wave-particle duality, both particles and waves, and quantum computing takes advantage of this behavior using s ...

. Together with Avinatan Hassidim and

Seth Lloyd Seth Lloyd (born August 2, 1960) is a professor of mechanical engineering and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research area is the interplay of information with complex systems, especially quantum systems. He has perfor ...

, he designed a

quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations The Harrow–Hassidim–Lloyd (HHL) algorithm is a quantum algorithm for numerically solving a system of linear equations, designed by Aram Harrow, Avinatan Hassidim, and Seth Lloyd. The algorithm estimates the result of a scalar measurement on t ...

, which in some cases exhibits an exponential advantage over the best classical algorithms. The algorithm has wide application in

quantum machine learning Quantum machine learning is the integration of quantum algorithms within machine learning programs. The most common use of the term refers to machine learning algorithms for the analysis of classical data executed on a quantum computer, i.e. qu ...

. He is a

steering committee A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly o ...

member of Quantum Information Processing (QIP), the largest annual conference in the field of

. Harrow is a co-administrator of SciRate, a free and open access scientific collaboration network. He also co-runs a blog, ''The Quantum Pontiff''. His collaborators include

Peter Shor Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American theoretical computer scientist known for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the ...

and Charles H. Bennett.

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* Living people American quantum information scientists MIT Center for Theoretical Physics faculty MIT Center for Theoretical Physics people American physicists 1980 births Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni {{US-physicist-stub