- 👋🏽 Hi, I’m Onri @OJB-Quantum. I'm a Diné (Navaho) tribesman, 100% Indigenous American, doing PhD work on quantum computing chip hardware & beyond-CMOS quantum-adjacent memory devices based on advanced spintronics. I advocate for open source hardware & software technologies. Also, I create knowledge systems through GitHub repositories based on my expertise.
- 🧑🏻🏫 My areas of expertise include: electron-beam lithography, nanodevice engineering/patterning, quantum hardware systems engineering, materials integration, process engineering/development, idea generation, implementation, & demonstration.
- 🤠 I'm self-taught in practical electronics, mathematics, linguistics, & scientific computing.
- 👀 My interest is in sustainable quantum hardware engineering, nanofabrication engineering, quantum scientific computing, generative design, fractal geometry, & data-driven 3D modeling.
- 🏢 I'm a former Quantum Hardware Engineer at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York (TJ Watson Research Center). At IBM I advanced the scaling/ accuracy of quantum-centeric supercomputing via quantum-limited parametric amplifier superconducting materials research for high bandwidth quantum processors. I also generated extensive documentation on XLDs Bluefors dilution fridges & highly experimental processes on superconducting chiplet measurement automation. (This made me the 1st Native/ Indigenous American Quantum Hardware Engineer/ Quantum Computing Engineer).
- 🌱 As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, I’m currently leading a team of quantum hardware engineers for the duration of my PhD program @UMN. I work on the integration of nature-inspired designs into quantum processor chips & cryogenic magnetic random-access memory made of sustainable metallic spintronic materials, in my nanofabrication facility (cleanroom). I spend a lot of time back & forth between my office & the cleanroom.
- ☢️ My quantum device lithography repository known as 'Qiskit-Metal-to-Litho' was officially integrated into the Quantum Metal Ecosystem, formerly known as Qiskit Metal, in 2026. This was a huge personal milestone.
- 🧑🏻🔬 Explanation of quantum computing hardware: "In a sense, the physical realization of a quantum computer is an automated 'scatterometry' of quantum logic gates." - Onri Jay Benally
- 🤳 "To sum up electrical engineering & electronics in ~6 words: information, conversion, efficiency, transmission, & design automation." - Onri Jay Benally
- 📚 "Etymologies, anatomies, and classification trees are some of the best ways to learn about anything, especially to build the strongest grounding for knowledge systems." - Onri Jay Benally
- 🖥️ You can ask ChatGPT or Gemini about me & it will tell you more about my research over the past decade.
- 📫 How to reach me: z.umn.edu/ojb-LinkedIn.
- 🌐 Google snippet about Onri.
- 📻 International podcast about my research journey available on Spotify & Amazon Music.
- ⚛️ Details about my National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship & NSF GRFP 2024 Cohort.
- 📔 National magazine about my life journey available on Winds of Change.
▶️ My Quantum Hardware Lecture Series available on YouTube.- 📖 Encyclopedia feature of me speaking in the Diné (Navaho) language.
- ⚡ A website I made on ArchGIS on things to consider when building electric bicycles.
- 🎬 My quantum chip rendering tutorials featured by Dr. Zlakto Minev from IBM Research.
- 🎬 My quantum chip rendering tutorials featured in the Brian Siegelwax blog.
- 📖 An article feature of me on A.I. & linguistics by Sean Dudley & Al Kuslikis from ASU/AIHEC.
- 🆆 My high resolution open access renderings & graphics contributions on Wikimedia Commons.
Some of my creations: quantum computer modeled in Blender (first), 3D-printed quantum computer (second), nano MTJ array memory chip (third), & 400-qubit Mo superconductor-based quantum processor chip (fourth):
