Charles Tahan

Dr. Charles Tahan is a U.S. physicist specializing in condensed matter physics and quantum information science and technology. He currently serves as the Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science (QIS) and the Director of the National Quantum Coordination Office (NQCO) within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Tahan is also Chief Scientist of the National Security Agency's Laboratory for Physical Sciences.

Tahan served as founding Executive Secretary of the NSTC Subcommittee on Quantum Information Science and the NSTC Economic and Security Implications of Quantum Science Subcommittee. Tahan served on the Defense Science Board Quantum Task Force [19] and for the National Academy of Sciences. Tahan co-chairs the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee.

Tahan is creator of Meqanic, one of the first games meant to build intuition about quantum computing and the Qubit Zoo.