Dr. Patricia Lee is the Chief Scientist for Product Technologies at Quantinuum, leading research and development in ion-trap quantum computing. She directs the technology roadmap for scaling trapped-ion quantum computers and achieving fault-tolerance, and her findings are widely recognized as foundational work in the field.

Lee earned her PhD in physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she developed techniques for quantum logic gates in trapped ions. She previously worked as an experimental physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), implementing the first entangling gate on ultracold atomic qubits in an optical lattice, and at the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), developing cold atoms as quantum memory for quantum networks.

Lee serves on multiple international advisory boards and was recently recognized as an Industry Pioneer at the Quantum World Congress. Her career combines foundational research, technological leadership, and global engagement.