Staff Scientist, Nanofabrication
Biography
Yashwanth graduated in Electronics and Instrumentation from Madras Institute of Technology, India and earned a Master’s in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from KU Leuven in 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven and IMEC, Belgium, in 2020. where his doctoral research centered on the fabrication and electrical characterization of transistors based on 2D materials for next-generation electronic applications.
After completing his Ph.D., Yashwanth joined Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) in the UK as a Nanofabrication Engineer, where he led the delivery of superconducting quantum processing units. He subsequently moved to the Molecular Foundry Nanofabrication Facility as a Postdoctoral Researcher and later as a Project Scientist, where his work focuses on material and device optimization for superconducting quantum circuits.
Research Interests
Yashwanth’s research is focused on the materials science and fabrication innovations needed to make fault-tolerant quantum computing a reality. Working at the Molecular Foundry, he develops and refines the building blocks of superconducting quantum hardware — from identifying and suppressing the interfacial oxides and two-level-system defects that limit qubit coherence, to engineering next-generation Josephson junctions and high-quality superconducting films with atomic-scale control over thickness, stoichiometry, and interface integrity.
His work extends beyond computing into quantum sensing, including low-Tc junctions for meV-scale particle and dark matter detection, and toward standardized benchmarking pipelines that make these capabilities accessible to the broader quantum research community. By tightly integrating growth, nanofabrication, metrology, and device measurement under one roof, his goal is to close the loop between what is built at the atomic scale and how quantum processors perform at the system level.
