Tannaz Farrahi is a PREP Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantum Nanophotonic Group at the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) and Department of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder where she conducts research in the novel design and nano/micro-fabrication of Quantum Detectors such as superconducting nanowire single photons detectors (SNSPDs) and transition edge sensors (TES), test and characterization. Tannaz received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Virginia where she was a doctoral Grote Reber fellow with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) from 2014-2017.

Her doctoral dissertation titled “Development of Advanced Technologies for High Frequency Radio Astronomy Detectors” in part resulted in the realization of SIS mixers for the 2nd generation of Band-6 detectors of ALMA radio telescope in collaboration with NRAO. Tannaz’s research interests lie in the area of Quantum Hardware Engineering, Superconducting Electronics, Nanofabrication, and Material science. Dr. Farrahi has published more than 20 peer reviewed conference and journal articles and 4 book chapters. Tannaz has served as the technical coordinator of IEEE-IST conference from 2014-2020. She currently serves as an ASC 2022 electronics organizing committee and the innovation chair program of IEEE-IST 2022.