Aziza Almanakly (7/2020 – present)
Postdoctoral Associate, Research Laboratory of Electronics
Recipient of the Alan McWhorter Fellowship (2024-2025)
Recipient of the Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowship (2023 – 2025)
Recipient of the PD Soros Fellowship for New Americans (2021 – 2023)
Room 13-3030
azizaalm (at) mit.edu

Aziza Almanakly is a post-doctoral researcher in the Engineering Quantum Systems Group (EQuS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She will join the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2026. Her research focuses on engineering and controlling quantum systems of superconducting circuits, with an emphasis on microwave quantum optics, waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics, and quantum communication.

Aziza’s graduate studies were supported by the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, the Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship, and the Alan L. McWhorter Fund Fellowship. She received her PhD (2025) and SM (2022) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and her BE (2020) in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.