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New
MIT Faculty Join RLE
Isaac Chuang and Steven G. Johnson become RLE members
For Immediate Release
MONDAY, 16 January 2005
Contact: William Smith, Assistant
Director for Finance and Sponsor
Relations
Phone: +1.617.253.5621
Email: whs@mit.edu
CAMBRIDGE, MA. 01.16.2005
The Research Laboratory
of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) announces that two MIT faculty
have joined the Laboratory.
Professor Isaac
Chuang is Associate Professor of
Electrical Engineering and Associate Professor Physics.
Professor Chuang is widely recognized for his pioneering
work in the creation of quantum computers while at
IBM's Almaden Research Center. Professor Chuang is
currently exploring large-scale quantum computers
and cryptographic systems. He is the co-author, with
Michael A. Nielsen, of Quantum Computation and Quantum
Information. Chuang received a BS in electrical engineering
and physics and an MS in electrical engineering,
both from MIT. He received a PhD in electrical engineering
from Stanford University, and was a postdoctoral
fellow at both the University of California at Berkeley
and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Prior to
coming to the MIT, Chuang was at IBM's Almaden Research
Center. In 1999, he was named as one of the "100
Most Promising Inventors" by Technology Review
magazine.
Professor Steven
G. Johnson is Assistant Professor
of Applied Mathematics. His research interests focus
on photonic crystals and electromagnetism in structured
media, as well as high-performance computation, from
fast Fourier transforms to large-scale eigensolvers
for numerical electromagnetism. Professor Johnson
was the co-inventor of FFTW, a free collection of
fast C routines for computing the Discrete Fourier
Transform in one or more dimensions. Professor Johnson
received his Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 2001, as
well as BS degrees in physics, mathematics, and computer
science from MIT in 1995, with post-doctoral positions
at MIT and Harvard.
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