Alice Koniges

We gratefully acknowledge the outstanding achievements that Dr. Alice Koniges has made in science and academics. After graduation from Poway High, Alice earned an undergraduate degree from UCSD and then a masters degree in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D in applied and computational math from Princeton in 1984, the first woman to earn that degree. Since then, Dr. Koniges has held jobs in a variety of disciplines as a physicist, computer scientist and computer systems engineer. In her present role, she works as a computer scientist in a collaborative research project between the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to study quantum bits, or qubits, that form the heart of quantum computers.