Mason J. Gray

masongrayphysics@gmail.com · masonjgray.com

Summary

Ph.D. physicist with a strong background in interdisciplinary research, lab infrastructure engineering, and team leadership.

Professional Experience

Quantum Infrastructure Manager
AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Pasadena, CA · 2023–present

Manages non-scientific infrastructure including facilities, safety, security, IT, logistics, and inventory for a leading quantum computing research center.

Lab Engineer
AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Pasadena, CA · 2022-2023

Built out lab infrastructure systems such as particle count monitoring in cleanrooms, asset management systems for equipment maintenance tracking, and safety risk assessments for equipment modifications.

Member of Technical Staff
Resonant, Inc. Goleta, CA · 2021-2022

Used finite element methods to simulate materials properties for SAW, LSAW, and BAW filters.

Education

Ph.D. in Physics
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA · 2021

Advisor: Prof. Kenneth Burch. Research focused on 2D materials, topological superconductivity, and novel quantum phenomena in van der Waals heterostructures.

Skills

Publications

  1. Hardware-efficient quantum error correction via concatenated bosonic qubits
    Harald Putterman, Kyungjoo Noh, Connor T. Hann, Gregory S. MacCabe, Shahriar Aghaeimeibodi, Rishi N. Patel, Menyoung Lee, William M. Jones, Hesam Moradinejad, Roberto Rodriguez, Neha Mahuli, Jefferson Rose, John Clai Owens, Harry Levine, Emma Rosenfeld, Philip Reinhold, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Joshua Ari Alcid, Nasser Alidoust, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola, James Barnett, Przemyslaw Bienias, Hugh A. Carson, Cliff Chen, Li Chen, Harutiun Chinkezian, Eric M. Chisholm, Ming-Han Chou, Aashish Clerk, Andrew Clifford, R. Cosmic, Ana Valdes Curiel, Erik Davis, Laura DeLorenzo, J. Mitchell D’Ewart, Art Diky, Nathan D’Souza, Philipp T. Dumitrescu, Shmuel Eisenmann, Essam Elkhouly, Glen Evenbly, Michael T. Fang, Yawen Fang, Matthew J. Fling, Warren Fon, Gabriel Garcia, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Julia A. Grant, Mason J. Gray, Sebastian Grimberg, Arne L. Grimsmo, Arbel Haim, Justin Hand, Yuan He, Mike Hernandez, David Hover, Jimmy S. C. Hung, Matthew Hunt, Joe Iverson, Ignace Jarrige, Jean-Christophe Jaskula, Liang Jiang, Mahmoud Kalaee, Rassul Karabalin, Peter J. Karalekas, Andrew J. Keller, Amirhossein Khalajhedayati, Aleksander Kubica, Hanho Lee, Catherine Leroux, Simon Lieu, Victor Ly, Keven Villegas Madrigal, Guillaume Marcaud, Gavin McCabe, Cody Miles, Ashley Milsted, Joaquin Minguzzi, Anurag Mishra, Biswaroop Mukherjee, Mahdi Naghiloo, Eric Oblepias, Gerson Ortuno, Jason Pagdilao, Nicola Pancotti, Ashley Panduro, JP Paquette, Minje Park, Gregory A. Peairs, David Perello, Eric C. Peterson, Sophia Ponte, John Preskill, Johnson Qiao, Gil Refael, Rachel Resnick, Alex Retzker, Omar A. Reyna, Marc Runyan, Colm A. Ryan, Abdulrahman Sahmoud, Ernesto Sanchez, Rohan Sanil, Krishanu Sankar, Yuki Sato, Thomas Scaffidi, Salome Siavoshi, Prasahnt Sivarajah, Trenton Skogland, Chun-Ju Su, Loren J. Swenson, Stephanie M. Teo, Astrid Tomada, Giacomo Torlai, E. Alex Wollack, Yufeng Ye, Jessica A. Zerrudo, Kailing Zhang, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Matthew H. Matheny & Oskar Painter
    Nature , 2025
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  2. Demonstrating a Long-Coherence Dual-Rail Erasure Qubit Using Tunable Transmons
    R. Sanil, H. Moradinejad, Y. Vaknin, A. Kubica, D. Hover, S. Aghaeimeibodi, J. A. Alcid, C. Baek, J. Barnett, K. Bawdekar, P. Bienias, H. A. Carson, C. Chen, L. Chen, H. Chinkezian, E. M. Chisholm, A. Clifford, R. Cosmic, N. Crisosto, A. M. Dalzell, E. Davis, J. M. D’Ewart, S. Diez, N. D’Souza, P. T. Dumitrescu, E. Elkhouly, M. T. Fang, Y. Fang, S. Flammia, M. J. Fling, G. Garcia, M. K. Gharzai, A. V. Gorshkov, M. J. Gray, S. Grimberg, A. L. Grimsmo, C. T. Hann, Y. He, S. Heidel, S. Howell, M. Hunt, J. Iverson, I. Jarrige, L. Jiang, W. M. Jones, R. Karabalin, P. J. Karalekas, A. J. Keller, D. Lasi, M. Lee, V. Ly, G. MacCabe, N. Mahuli, G. Marcaud, M. H. Matheny, S. McArdle, G. McCabe, G. Merton, C. Miles, A. Milsted, A. Mishra, L. Moncelsi, M. Naghiloo, K. Noh, E. Oblepias, G. Ortuno, J. C. Owens, J. Pagdilao, A. Panduro, J.-P. Paquette, R. N. Patel, G. Peairs, D. J. Perello, E. C. Peterson, S. Ponte, H. Putterman, G. Refael, P. Reinhold, R. Resnick, O. A. Reyna, R. Rodriguez, J. Rose, A. H. Rubin, M. Runyan, C. A. Ryan, A. Sahmoud, T. Scaffidi, B. Shah, S. Siavoshi, P. Sivarajah, T. Skogland, C.-J. Su, L. J. Swenson, J. Sylvia, S. M. Teo, A. Tomada, G. Torlai, M. Wistrom,∥, K. Zhang, I. Zuk, A. A. Clerk, F. G. S. L. Brandão, A. Retzker, and O. Painter
    Physical Review X , 2024
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  3. Phase-Controllable Synthesis of Ultrathin Molybdenum Nitride Crystals Via Atomic Substitution of MoS2
    Hongze Gao, Jun Cao, Tianshu Li, Weijun Luo, Mason Gray, Narendra Kumar, Kenneth S. Burch, Xi Ling
    Chemistry of Materials , 2022
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  4. ac Susceptometry of 2D van der Waals Magnets Enabled by the Coherent Control of Quantum Sensors
    Xin-Yue Zhang, Yu-Xuan Wang, Thomas A. Tartaglia, Thomas Ding, Mason J. Gray, Kenneth S. Burch, Fazel Tafti, Brian B. Zhou
    PRX Quantum , 2021
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  5. Detection of a Multi-Disease Biomarker in Saliva with Graphene Field Effect Transistors
    Narendra Kumar, Mason Gray, Juan C. Ortiz-Marquez, Andrew Weber, Cameron R. Desmond, Avni Argun, Tim van Opijnen, Kenneth S. Burch
    Medical Devices and Sensors , 2020
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  6. Modulation Doping via a Two-Dimensional Atomic Crystalline Acceptor
    Yiping Wang, Jesse Balgley, Eli Gerber, Mason Gray, Narendra Kumar, Xiaobo Lu, Jia-Qiang Yan, Arash Fereidouni, Rabindra Basnet, Seok Joon Yun, Dhavala Suri, Hikari Kitadai, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Xi Ling, Jagadeesh Moodera, Young Hee Lee, Hugh O. H. Churchill, Jin Hu, Li Yang, Eun-Ah Kim, David G. Mandrus, Erik A. Henriksen, Kenneth S. Burch
    Nano Letters , 2020
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  7. High Mobility in a van der Waals Layered Antiferromagnetic Metal
    Shiming Lei, Jingjing Lin, Yanyu Jia, Mason Gray, Andreas Topp, Gelareh Farahi, Sebastian Klemenz, Tong Gao, Fanny Rodolakis, Jessica L. McChesney, Christian R. Ast, Ali Yazdani, Kenneth S. Burch, Sanfeng Wu, Nai Phuan Ong, Leslie M. Schoop
    Science Advances , 2020
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  8. A Cleanroom in a Glovebox
    Mason J. Gray, Narendra Kumar, Ryan O'Connor, Marcel Hoek, Erin Sheridan, Meaghan C. Doyle, Marisa L. Romanelli, Gavin B. Osterhoudt, Yiping Wang, Vincent Plisson, Shiming Lei, Ruidan Zhong, Bryan Rachmilowitz, He Zhao, Hikari Kitadai, Steven Shepard, Leslie M. Schoop, G. D. Gu, Ilija Zeljkovic, Xi Ling, Kenneth S. Burch
    Review of Scientific Instruments , 2020
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  9. Evidence for Helical Hinge Zero Modes in an Fe-Based Superconductor
    Mason J. Gray, Josef Freudenstein, Shu Yang F. Zhao, Ryan O'Connor, Samuel Jenkins, Narendra Kumar, Marcel Hoek, Abigail Kopec, Soonsang Huh, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ruidan Zhong, Changyoung Kim, G. D. Gu, K. S. Burch
    Nano Letters , 2019
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  10. Colossal Mid-Infrared Bulk Photovoltaic Effect in a Type-I Weyl Semimetal
    Gavin B. Osterhoudt, Laura K. Diebel, Mason J. Gray, Xu Yang, John Stanco, Xiangwei Huang, Bing Shen, Ni Ni, Philip J. W. Moll, Ying Ran, Kenneth S. Burch
    Nature Materials , 2019
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  11. Coulomb Blockade in an Atomically Thin Quantum Dot Coupled to a Tunable Fermi Reservoir
    Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Artur Branny, Santosh Kumar, Raphaël Picard, Raphaël Proux, Mason Gray, Kenneth S. Burch, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Brian D. Gerardot
    Nature Nanotechnology , 2019
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  12. Magneto-Elastic Coupling in a Potential Ferromagnetic 2D Atomic Crystal
    Yao Tian, Mason J. Gray, Huiwen Ji, R. J. Cava, Kenneth S. Burch
    2D Materials , 2016
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  13. Ionic Liquid Gating of Suspended MoS2 Field Effect Transistor Devices
    Fenglin Wang, Petr Stepanov, Mason Gray, Chun Ning Lau, Mikhail E. Itkis, Robert C. Haddon
    Nano Letters , 2015
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  14. Annealing and Transport Studies of Suspended Molybdenum Disulfide Devices
    Fenglin Wang, Petr Stepanov, Mason Gray, Chun Ning Lau
    Nanotechnology , 2015
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