Senior Research Physicist, Quantum Information Processing Group, Experimental Lead USAF/AFRL/RITQ, Quantum Technologies Branch

Michael Fanto is a Senior Research Physicist with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate in the Quantum Technologies Branch located in Rome, New York.  He is the experimental lead for the quantum information processing group where he conducts research on quantum integrated photonics, heterogeneous qubit integration, entanglement distribution, quantum networking, and quantum information processing.  He completed his BS degree in Physics from Utica College in 2002, and his Ph.D. in Microsystems Engineering focused on ultrawide-bandgap quantum integrated photonics from Rochester Institute of Technology.