Dr. Nicholas Guise is a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), where he serves as Chief Scientist of the CIPHER Laboratory, a unit of roughly 300 research faculty supporting diverse DoD and IC programs in cybersecurity, information protection, and hardware evaluation. In this role he manages CIPHER’s portfolio of internally funded research (IRAD) projects and also supports GTRI's Chief Technology Officer in directing strategic IRAD investments across GTRI. He has led federally funded research programs in areas including microfabricated ion traps for scalable quantum information processing, cybersecurity considerations for quantum computing, and DNA synthesis microchips for molecular data storage. Dr. Guise holds a B.S. in Physics from Caltech and Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard. He was an NRC postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD.