Camron Blackburn

Founder & CTO at Adiabatic Machines

Greater Boston, United States

About Camron Blackburn

Camron Blackburn is Founder & CTO at Adiabatic Machines. Location: Greater Boston, United States.

I am a PhD candidate jointly advised by Prof. Neil Gershenfeld in the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms and Prof. Karl Berggren in the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication group in the RLE at MIT. My PhD research focuses on ultra-low power computing systems built from superconducting electronic devices. My work spans the full stack of computing system development, from low-level superconducting device physics to high-level architecture analysis. Things I get most excited to talk about (in no particular order): - reconfigurable hardware accelerators for application specific computing tasks - early computer history - specifically data storage methods (more specifically, EDVAC delay lines built from mercury tubes) - science and technology funding pipelines - how they've impacted what research gets done and how to shape them for the future - Maxwell's demon > Landauer's limit > Szilard engine thought experiment > reversible computing (both logically and thermodynamically) - asynchronous automata computing theory - geoCities era of the World Wide Web - superconducting device logic families (and their tradeoffs)

Skills

  • Research
  • Teaching

Additional experience

  • Activate Fellow

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    Started July 2026

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Master of Science - MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology