Adam McCaughan is a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, CO, working on single-photon detector technologies, superconducting nanoelectronics, and neuromorphic hardware analysis. He received his PhD from MIT for his study of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors. He was recently named a Nancy Grace Roman Technology fellow by NASA for his work on single-photon detector arrays.
NASA Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship - 2019
NRC Postdoctoral Research Associateship - 2016
MIT EECS Jin Au Kong Outstanding Thesis Award - 2016
NSF Fellowship - 2013
NSF IQuISE Graduate Research Fellowship - 2010