Vivek Dhande

Vivek's research focuses on quantum computing hardware, specifically novel superconducting qubits and kinetic inductance traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (KI-TWPA).

Vivek grew up in Pune (India) and Chicago. He received his B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science, specializing in Engineering Physics, from the University of Toronto. There, he was a founding member of Q-SITE, a non-profit organization promoting education of quantum technologies for undergraduate and early-graduate students through conferences and hackathons. For his bachelor's thesis, he designed 3D-integrated superconducting qubits for crosstalk mitigation in Prof. Andreas Wallraff's group at ETH Zurich. Vivek joined QumuLab at UCSB as a physics PhD student in 2025. He is excited by the device-level design and nanofabrication of quantum computing hardware and by the pursuit of novel mesoscopic quantum phenomena for quantum information science. Outside the lab and cleanroom, he enjoys running, being in the mountains, and playing the trumpet.