Dr. Brian Swenson is a Senior Research Engineer in CIPHER’s Quantum Systems Division (QSD) at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He earned dual bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where his research focused on large-scale parallel and distributed simulation.

Dr. Swenson previously served as an adjunct professor at Georgia Tech, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in simulation and programming. He has co-authored 13 peer-reviewed conference papers on simulation and served for two years as Technical Program Chair for the WNS3 conference. His work has included numerous simulation efforts involving AFSIM and OneSAF. In his current role, he focuses on simulation-based research supporting the quantum control chain, with additional interests in software testing and high-performance computing.