Max Hays (7/2021 – present)
Research Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics
Room 13-3026
maxhays (at) mit.edu

Max is a research scientist in the EQuS group. His focus areas include next-generation qubit architectures, quantum error correction, noise analysis, and circuit quantization. Max conducted his Ph.D. research with Michel Devoret at Yale University. At Yale, he investigated Andreev levels and quasiparticle dynamics using circuit QED techniques. In 2021, Max joined EQuS as a postdoctoral associate, and was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow from 2022 to 2025.