Aziza Almanakly

Aziza Almanakly is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Her research in the nascent field of quantum engineering focuses on controlling quantum systems of superconducting circuits. Her group aims to advance microwave quantum optics to expand the potential of quantum information technology.

Almanakly leads a research team investigating waveguide quantum electrodynamics (wQED) with superconducting qubits, with the overarching goal of creating scalable quantum networks for distributed quantum computation and simulation. During her doctoral studies, she developed a chiral quantum interconnect that uses directional photons to generate remote entanglement — an advance in superconducting quantum networking published in Nature Physics and currently under patent review.

She earned her Ph.D. (2025) and S.M. (2022) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a member of the Engineering Quantum Systems (EQuS) group. Her graduate studies were supported by the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, the Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship for Graduate Women, and the Alan L. McWhorter Fund Fellowship. She received her B.E. (2020) in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Almanakly is committed to building a vibrant quantum research environment at NYU and contributing to the growth of the New York City quantum ecosystem. She welcomes curious, hands-on students excited to explore the frontier of microwave quantum optics. Students will become quantum engineers – gaining deep experience and training in both physics and engineering, from circuit design and theoretical modeling to measurement.