Naomi Nickerson

Designs fault-tolerant architectures for photonic quantum computers, developing ways to assemble small entangled resources and use connectivity efficiently while controlling the cost of error correction.

Nickerson works on the architecture between physical photonic components and reliable computation. Fusion-based quantum computing makes small resource states and entangling measurements the building blocks of a larger machine. Her work with Daniel Litinski on active volume asks a complementary question: how can available nonlocal connections reduce the cost of logical operations? These are theoretical architecture contributions with explicit assumptions. They help define what hardware must deliver rather than establish that the full proposed computer has already been built.