Franz Klein, HPC Engineer and QLab Quantum Technologist

Franz Klein earned a doctorate in physics from the University of Bonn in Germany in 1996. For the next 20 years he was active as a researcher in experimental nuclear physics and as an instructor for advanced physics and scientific computing courses with a focus on multivariate regression, Machine Learning, and Monte Carlo simulation techniques. Klein then held a three-year IT position with the University of Maryland’s Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS) College where he introduced graduate students and postdocs to high-performance computing (HPC) and taught programming classes in Python and R with a focus on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. In February, 2020 Klein joined MAX to strengthen the user support for the HPC clusters at UMD.

In 2021, Klein became the Founding Director of the National Quantum Laboratory (QLab), where he promoted the development of practical quantum computing and networking applications and training of a skilled quantum workforce.