Shyam Shankar is an assistant professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B. Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2004 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2010. From 2010 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral associate and subsequently a research scientist at Yale University in the group of Prof. Michel Devoret. Shankar is an expert in superconducting quantum circuits and has led a number of experiments that demonstrate the underlying principles for the design of large-scale quantum computers in this platform. These include a demonstration of rapid, high fidelity qubit measurement, the stabilization of quantum entanglement with feedback, the demonstration of modular remote entanglement of superconducting qubits, and the development of ultra-low-noise microwave amplifiers and non-reciprocal devices. He started the Quantum Circuits group at the University of Texas at Austin in fall 2019.