About
I’m Dhananjay (DJ) Ravikumar, cryogenic research engineer at the PSFC. My supervisor and I have come up with a solid-state sub-kelvin refrigeration system that could potentially be used to cool quantum computers and replace large, traditional fluid-based machines that are unscalable and resource limited.
- DJ is a high-energy physicist by background. He did his PhD and postdoc at Stony Brook, and now works in cryogenics.
- He initially led cryogenics work for the SPARC tokamak, then worked on the Toroidal field model coil with Zach Hartwig
- He now works with John Brisson on cryogenics. In particular, he is trying to replace dilution refrigeration technology in quantum computing applications.
- DJ has a daughter who was born in 2018.
- He went through the Blueprint program at The Engine.
How we met
Reached out during my first month as VB@PSFC.