Adrian Lupaşcu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and a member of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. His research is in the area of quantum information processing and focuses on the implementation of quantum computers and sensors using superconducting devices. His main research interest include quantum control, quantum annealing, and light-matter interactions in superconducting systems. He received his BSc from University of Bucharest, Romania, in 2000. The subject of his undergraduate thesis was scanning probe microscopy studies of thin polymer layers deposited on metallic surfaces. He then joined Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, where he obtained his PhD title in 2005. His PhD work involved experiments on dispersive measurement of superconducting qubits. In 2006, he started a postdoc at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, supported by a Marie Curie fellowship, where he did research on cold atoms and superconducting detectors. Since March 2009, he joined University of Waterloo as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and a faculty member of the Institute for Quantum Computing, working on the investigation of superconducting systems for quantum information processing and quantum optics. He is the recipient of a Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.