Biography

Santiago Núñez-Corrales, Ph.D. serves as Quantum Lead Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He also serves as faculty affiliate at the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center (IQUIST), the Center for Global Studies (CGS), the Arms Control & Domestic and International Security (ACDIS), and Illinois Informatics at the same institution. His expertise includes research computing and quantum programming language design, building digital twins of superconducting quantum devices, devising distributed quantum computation protocols, HPC-QPU integration, and dependable classical-quantum computer systems engineering. In addition, his expertise includes Agent-Based Modeling and statistical physics on complex systems of natural and anthropic origin, with a focus on global risk and security. Dr. Núñez-Corrales obtained his doctoral degree in Informatics from UIUC, and a bachelor in Computer Engineering from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology.