Chris Pratt

Christian Pratt received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Davis in 2026. His doctoral research combined dynamical systems theory and stochastic thermodynamics with superconducting circuit theory and electrical engineering simulation tools to develop energy-efficient superconducting logic gates. Previously, he received a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. from the University of California, Davis. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the OPUS Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests lie at the intersection of algorithms for machine learning and mathematical optimization, and their implementations in energy-efficient probabilistic computing hardware.