Andy Vidan

Andy Vidan is an American computer scientist working at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Vidan's initial research focused on quantum computing and nanotechnology. His doctoral dissertation, "Charge and Spin Effects in Semiconductor Nanostructures," presented a number of breakthrough milestones, including an observation of the quantization of current in superconducting nanowires - work that was published[1] with Michael Tinkham, renowned Harvard University physics professor and one of the pioneers of superconductivity.

Vidan's interest in massively scalable data and compute systems continued beyond quantum computing, and focused on distributed systems more generally. This led to his work on an operational, real-time, massively distributed command and control system for emergency response, for which he was awarded an IEEE Technical Field Award. This system is now operational and used by entities such as the United States Department of Homeland Security and NATO.[2] More recently, Vidan has spun off an artificial intelligence company from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has contributed to the early concepts of DataOps.