Rate My Professor Edwin Barnes

Barnes has received the National Science Foundation Early Career Faculty (CAREER) award in 2019 and the Roger H. Moore and Mojdeh Khatam-Moore Dean’s Faculty Fellowship in 2023 for a three-year term. He has authored over 110 peer-reviewed publications, accumulating more than 8,370 citations, and delivered 60 invited or keynote presentations at professional conferences. As principal investigator or co-principal investigator, he manages 20 grants from agencies including the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Key publications include “Preparing Bethe Ansatz Eigenstates on a Quantum Computer” (PRX Quantum, 2021), “Dynamically corrected gates from geometric space curves” (Quantum Science and Technology, 2022), “Symmetry breaking slows convergence of the ADAPT Variational Quantum Eigensolver” (Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2022), “An automated geometric space curve approach for designing dynamically corrected gates” (npj Quantum Information, 2026), “Minimal state-preparation times for silicon spin qubits” (npj Quantum Information, 2025), and “Quantum thermalization and Floquet engineering in a spin ensemble with a clock transition” (Nature Physics, 2025). His contributions significantly influence the field through innovative algorithms and protocols for quantum devices.