Sam Benz leads the Superconductive Electronics Group of NIST that develops state-of-the-art DC, AC, and RF superconducting quantum-based voltage sources, standard reference instrument systems, and precisions measurement techniques, which NIST provides to U.S. Industry and national and international measurement laboratories. The group also has research programs in superconducting high-speed computing, quantum computing, and RF communications. Dr. Benz grew up in Dubuque, Iowa, USA, received his B.A. from Luther College, Decorah, IA, in 1985 and his Ph.D. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1990. He is a Fellow of NIST, the American Physical Society (APS), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has four patents and three U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medals and received the 2016 IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement