Patel, Ravi is a quantum physicist and educator whose research spans superconducting circuits and hybrid spin systems. Born in 1979 in Ahmedabad, he earned a B.Tech. in Engineering Physics from IIT Bombay and a Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 2007. After postdoctoral work at NIST Boulder on precision measurement, he joined the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, where he is a professor of physics and directs a lab focused on noise-resilient qubits and quantum measurement theory. Patel has authored widely cited papers in Nature Physics and Physical Review Letters and consults on quantum cryptography standards. A frequent contributor to public science outlets, he has written essays for Scientific American and The Caravan. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario, and mentors early-career researchers across India and Canada.