For the last few years, our team has run educational events that have enabled thousands of attendees to experience the wonder of creating their own gadgets through science and engineering. We are proud to have channeled our passion for creating, teaching, and civil service to empower the next generation of makers. Through the Qbead, we hope to reach even more students.
If you want to get in touch or have any questions, email mail@qbead.org.
Carlos
Delft University of Technology, QuTech
Carlos loves science, crafts, and art, and sometimes combines them into a beautiful gadget like the Qbead. On top of that, he enjoys mentoring and contributing to diversity in science and engineering. Examples are organizing science-art workshops with asylum seekers in Sweden and the quantum hackathon iQuHACK at MIT. Now at Delft University of Technology and QuTech, Carlos is a professor exploring quantum photonics while he continues to lead outreach projects to democratize science and technology.
Stefan
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Since high school Stefan has enjoyed sharing the wonders of science with others, organizing extraculicular courses and summer break Physics events. While a graduate student at Yale’s Quantum Institute he felt most at home in Yale’s makerspace, preparing contraptions to be used in middle- and high-school outreach events. He continued his reasearch work on photonic quantum computers jointly at MIT and Harvard, but spends much of his free time designing hands-on outreach materials, including the SpinWheel. Now, as a professor at UMass Amherst, he is designing the Qbead as a way to bring the maker ethos to teaching Quantum Information Science.
Hugo
MIT
Hugo appreciates taking part in various efforts promoting higher education in STEM to various communities. Since his undergraduate studies at the University of Ottawa, these have included participation in the university’s mini-courses program and engaging with elementary school students about being a grad student. He is currently a doctoral student in electrical engineering at MIT.
Saumil
MIT
Saumil has always held a fascination for building things. As a graduate student at MIT, Saumil worked on silicon photonics, where he spent a great deal of time hacking together electronics and microcontrollers to run his experiments. He also enjoys teaching and has helped develop several courses and hands-on labs to introduce students to photonic hardware. Saumil is now a postdoc jointly at MIT and NTT Research, where he has continued his research at the intersection of optics and computing. He hopes to share his love of building hardware through the Qbead and inspire the next generation of quantum scientists and engineers.
