In addition to other honors, for his pioneering work in superconducting devices, he was awarded with the American Physical Society George E. Valley, Jr. Prize in 2006, "for the development of the Josephson bifurcation amplifier for ultra-sensitive measurements at the quantum limit."

Siddiqi was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and is a direct descendant of the well-known leader of the Khilafat Movement, Muslim activist, journalist and poet, Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar (Urdu: مَولانا مُحمّد علی جَوہر).

Upon receiving his Ph.D. in 2002,[2][3] he remained as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale, under Michel Devoret and Rob Schoelkopf, to research high frequency measurement techniques for superconducting qubits.

He joined the University of California, Berkeley as a faculty member in the summer of 2005, and is currently a full professor in the Physics Department.

The project aims to collaboratively advance the field by incorporating state-of-the-art quantum hardware into an open-access research tool for the science community.