Dirk Englund
Dirk Robert Englund | |
|---|---|
| Born | Munich, Germany |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology, Stanford University |
| Awards | Humboldt Professorship, Adolph Lomb Medal, Humboldt Research Fellowship, Bose Research Fellow, ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award, MIT Lincoln Laboratory R&D100 Award, IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Professional Award, IBM Faculty Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Sloan Research Fellowship, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award,NSF Graduate Fellowship, NDSEG Fellow, Fulbright Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Photonics, Quantum information, Optical computing |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University |
| Thesis | Photonic crystals for quantum and classical information processing (2008) |
| Doctoral advisors | Jelena Vuckovic |
| Website | https://www.rle.mit.edu/qp/ |
Dirk Robert Englund is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his research in quantum photonics and optical computing.
Biography and education
Dirk Robert Englund was born in Munich, Germany in 1979 and moved to Los Angeles, United States during his teens. After graduating from high school, he attended the California Institute of Technology, where he majored in physics and received his B.S. in 2002.[1][2] After spending one year at the Technical University of Eindhoven on a Fulbright scholarship, he returned to the United States to earn his M.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 2008 under the supervision of Jelena Vuckovic.[1][2] He then completed postdoctoral research in the group of Mikhail Lukin at Harvard University.[1][2] Dirk Englund is the son of American Assyriologist, Robert Keith Englund.[3]
Career and research
From 2010 to 2013, Englund was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics at Columbia University.[1] In 2013, he moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.[4]
Englund’s research focuses on photonic devices and systems for quantum information technologies and machine learning acceleration.[5] He has contributed to a wide range of topics in photonics including quantum dot light emission in photonic crystals,[6] solid-state quantum memories in nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond,[7] graphene integration for photodetectors,[8] and optical accelerators for machine learning.[9]
His work has led to several spin-off companies: DUST Identity is developing diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers for authentication;[10] Lightmatter is developing photonic computing platforms;[11] QuEra Computing is building quantum computers using neutral atoms;[12] and Quantum Network Technologies is developing quantum repeaters for networks.[13]
Awards
Englund has received numerous awards in recognition of his research, including a Humboldt Professorship, the Optica Adolph Lomb Medal, ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award, IBM Faculty Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the Sloan Research Fellowship. He is an Optica Fellow.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Dirk Robert Englund | Living History | Optica".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://isn.mit.edu/prof-dirk-englund
- ↑ Watson, Emma (June 5, 2020). "Tributes: Bob Englund". Near Eastern Languages & Cultures - UCLA.
- ↑ "Dirk Englund – MIT EECS". www.eecs.mit.edu.
- ↑ "Homepage". MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ↑ Englund, D., Fattal, D., Waks, E., et al. Controlling the spontaneous emission rate of single quantum dots in a two-dimensional photonic crystal. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 013904 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.013904
- ↑ Wan, N.H., Lu, TJ., Chen, K.C. et al. Large-scale integration of artificial atoms in hybrid photonic circuits. Nature 583, 226–231 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2441-3
- ↑ Gan, X., Shiue, RJ., Gao, Y. et al. Chip-integrated ultrafast graphene photodetector with high responsivity. Nature Photon 7, 883–887 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.253
- ↑ Shen, Y., Harris, N., Skirlo, S. et al. Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits. Nature Photon 11, 441–446 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2017.93
- ↑ "Who is DUST Identity". Retrieved 29 Jan 2023.
- ↑ "People". Retrieved 29 Jan 2023.
- ↑ "About Us". Retrieved 29 Jan 2023.
- ↑ "Quantum Research Engineer". Retrieved 29 January 2023.
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