Blake Johnson is a Distinguished Engineer and Quantum Capabilities Architect at IBM. He is responsible for R&D teams delivering compilation, control, and decoding infrastructure for fault-tolerant quantum computers. Blake has previously worked across many elements of the quantum computing stack, including characterization protocols, quantum programming languages, device design, control systems, and system architecture. Prior to IBM, Blake was Chief Quantum Engineer at Rigetti and Senior Scientist at Raytheon BBN. He earned his PhD in physics from Yale.