About
Crystal Noel is an Assistant Professor at Duke University in the Pratt School of Engineering and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, with appointments in both the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics since 2022. She is also a Member of the Duke Quantum Center since 2024.
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Berkeley (2019)
- B.S. in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013)
Her research focuses on quantum computing and simulation with trapped ions, integrated photonics for scalable trapped ion systems, and electric-field noise from surfaces. Recent work includes developing non-invasive mid-circuit measurement techniques, sympathetic cooling for ion chains, and cross-platform quantum state comparison. She has secured significant grants from National Science Foundation, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for quantum co-design and networking projects.
Her lab (Noel Lab) explores scalable quantum computing architectures and surface noise mitigation. She teaches courses ranging from foundational Fields and Waves: Fundamentals of Information Propagation to advanced topics in Quantum Engineering with Atoms and Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
