Brad Lackey is a mathematician and computer scientist who joined Microsoft in December 2018. He currently leads a small team of quantum architects and runs the quantum networking program in Microsoft Quantum. Prior to Microsoft, he was Senior Technical Leader with the National Security Agency, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland, and Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. He received a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Houston, was an Izaak Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Alberta, and an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow and University Lecturer at University of Hull. He has broad research interests in quantum information science, including quantum algorithm design, quantum error correction, quantum and post-quantum cryptography, and foundations of quantum theory.
