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Associate Professor, EECS

englund -at- mit -dot- edu
Room 36-525
617.324.7014--Tel

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Dirk Englund received his BS in Physics from Caltech in 2002. Following a Fulbright year at TU Eindhoven, he earned an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in Applied Physics in 2008, both from Stanford University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University until 2010, when he started his group as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics at Columbia University. In 2013, he joined the faculty of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dirk's research focuses on quantum technologies based on semiconductor and optical systems. Recent recognitions include the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the 2011 Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics, the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2012 IBM Faculty Award, an 2016 R&D100 Award, the OSA's 2017 Adolph Lomb Medal, and the 2017 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award.

PhD (Appl. Physics), Stanford (2008)
MS (Electrical Engineering), Stanford
BS (Physics), Caltech

Research Scientist

mheuck -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-517

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Dr. Mikkel Heuck received his M.Sc. degree in Applied Physics Engineering in 2009 and Ph.D. in 2013, both from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) under supervision of Prof. Jesper Mørk. In 2014 he joined Prof. Dirk Englund’s group at MIT as a Postdoctoral Fellow and in 2016 he returned to DTU with a Postdoc Fellowship to work in the group of Prof. Leif K. Oxenløwe. In 2019, he returned to Prof. Dirk Englund’s group as a Research Scientist. Dr. Heuck’s research interests are primarily centered around ultralow power nonlinear optics in photonic integrated circuits for classical and quantum applications including: Multiplexed single photon sources, photon-photon interactions for quantum logic gates, quantum control of photon wave packets using dynamically coupled cavities, nanophotonic cavity design, electro-optic modulation, and all-optical signal processing.

Research Scientist

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Room 36-537

R.H. was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1988. He graduated from Boulder High School in 2006 and received a B.S. degree from Caltech in 2010, working with Prof. Yanbei Chen on black hole mergers. In 2016 he received a Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Stanford, for work with Prof. Hideo Mabuchi on quantum control, nanophotonics, and nonlinear optics. In 2017 he was at the National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo), working with Prof. Yoshihisa Yamamoto on quantum annealing and optical computing concepts. He is currently an IC postdoctoral fellow at MIT with Prof. Dirk Englund.

PhD (Applied Physics) Stanford (2016).
BS (Physics) Caltech (2010)

Administrative Assistant

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Room 36-825
617.253.7349--Tel

Postdoctoral Researcher

ldesanti -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-533

PhD (Physics), University of Paris-Saclay (2018). MS (Physics) University of Ferrara.

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Room 36-523

MS (Nanophysics and Nanostructructures) Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France

PhD (Materials Science), University of Rochester, NY, USA (2018).

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Room 36-529

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Room 36-517

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Room 36-519

Postdoctoral Researcher

alukin -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-519

BS (Physics), MIPT (2010)

MS (Physics), MIPT (2012)

PhD (Physics), Harvard (2018)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Room 36-535

B.Sc. (Physics and computer science), Tel Aviv University, Israel

Ph.D (Physics) Tel Aviv University, Israel

 

PhD Student

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Room 36-535

Eric received his BA from Harvard in 2014 with a double major in {Biomedical Engineering} and {Chemistry & Physics}, working with Mikhail Lukin on nanoscale NMR. After graduating, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to work on cavity optics at Ludwig-Maximillian Univeristy of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Eric joined the Quantum Photonics Lab in Fall of 2015, where he is a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow, and works on large-scale characterization of defect center properties, quantum frequency down-conversion, and multi-qubit control and readout. Outside of the lab, Eric is a Resident Tutor at one of Harvard's houses, sings with the Jameson Singers choir, and works with MIT's Science Policy Initiative to promote scientifically-minded policy decisions and encourage science literacy in the broader public.

AB (Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry & Physics), Harvard (2014)

PhD Student

choihr -at- mit -dot- edu
Room 36-531

BS (Electrical Engineering), Seoul National University (2014)

SM (EECS), MIT (2017)

PhD Student

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Room 36-535

Ian received his BS in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Washington. There, he worked with Professor Kai-Mei Fu on nitrogen-vacancy center quantum computation. Ian will continue similar work in the Quantum Photonics Lab.
Ian runs kinda fast.

BS (Math, Physics) University of Washington (2017)

Recipient of the QISE-NET award.

PhD Student

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BS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), The Citadel (2015)

PhD Student

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Room 36-529

Christopher Foy earned his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). While at Georgia Tech I worked on determining the thermal conductivity of graphene. Since becoming a graduate student at MIT I have worked on using the NV center for sensing applications. Specifically, wide field magnetic field imaging. When I am not in the lab, I enjoy hanging out with my fellow lab mates, serving on the house government of my dorm (go Ashdown!), eating desserts, drinking excessive amounts of soda, and in general getting into trouble.

BS (Physics), Georgia Tech (2013)

PhD Student

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Room 36-523
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Jordan Goldstein received S.B.'s in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT in the summer of 2014. After spending a year as an undergraduate doing photonic design for diamond-based quantum photonic research in Prof. Englund's group, he shifted his research focus towards graphene optoelectronics where he is currently working on telecommunications, sensing and network applications. He is currently funded by MIT Course 6's E. E. Landsman fellowship, although next year he will begin accepting funding from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Jordan is most strongly motivated by applications which tangibly impact people's lives. He is also motivated by interesting design problems and novel phenomena which can be used to improve technology. Although he is most comfortable with the abstraction levels of device physics and device-level photonics, he is eager to gain understanding and insight by delving into the lower-level behavior of the materials he works with, and to reinforce and optimize the usefulness of his research from a system-level point of view. Outside of the office, he enjoys linear combinations of cooking, gardening, DIY projects and music. He performs in MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika.

SB (Physics), MIT
SB (Electrical Engineering), MIT

PhD Student

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Room 36-533

BS (Electrical Engineering), Caltech (2013)

PhD Student

hwmoon -at- mit -dot- edu
Room 36-523

MS (EECS), Seoul National University (2012)
BS (EE), Seoul National University (2010)

PhD Student

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Room 36-521

Christopher received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the United States Naval Academy in 2017. During his time at Academy, Chris worked on the development of radar signal processing algorithms as an intern at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, created digital image reconstruction techniques at the DoD Cyber Crime Center, and began initial research in photonics. His senior research thesis focused on the development of a mechanically mediated RF-to-optical transducer using integrated photonics. Following graduation, he was commissioned as a cryptologic officer in the United States Navy and, with the support of the Hertz Fellowship and the MIT Jacobs Presidential Fellowship, joined the Quantum Photonics Group as a PhD student. At MIT, he is excited to further explore integrated photonics in an effort to advance the fields of quantum cryptography, communications, and enhanced sensing.
Outside of the lab, Chris shares his passion for aviation as a volunteer flight instructor, and enjoys investigating the relationship between leadership and innovation in technical organizations.

BS (Electrical Engineering and Physics), United States Naval Academy (2017)

PhD Student

cpeng -at- mit -dot- edu
Room 36-521

Cheng received her BA from Cornell University in 2013 with a double major in Physics and Mathematics, during which she spent a year studying abroad in the University of Oxford. As an undergrad, she first worked on computational mathematics, applying difference-map algorithm to the sphere packing problem. After that, she shifted her research focus to condensed-matter physics and has worked on graphene optics and photonics since then. Cheng joined Quantum Photonics Lab at MIT as a graduate student in the fall of 2013. Her research focuses both on investigating plasmonics and nonlinear optics in graphene on a fundamental research level, and on developing graphene photodetectors, modulators and nonlinear devices applications in information processing, communication and sensing technologies.

Outside of the lab, she enjoys landscape photography, music, sports and visiting interesting places.

BA (Mathematics), Cornell University (2013)
BA (Physics), Cornell University (2013)

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Room 36-521

SB (Electrical Engineering), MIT (2015)
SB (Physics), MIT (2015)

PhD Student

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Room 36-533

Noel received his B.A. in Physics from Columbia University in 2014. He is interested in quantum optics with spin qubits in diamond.

BA (Physics) Columbia University (2014)

PhD Student

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Room 36-535

Michael Walsh earned his BS in Physics and EECS from MIT in 2013. He worked on thermopower waves in carbon nanotubes as an alternative energy source in the Strano lab for the first couple of years as an undergraduate. After comleting work in the Strano lab, his interest morphed into quantum computing, the field that he is currently focussing on. Initially working on cavity coupled ion traps in the Chuang lab, he transitioned to the Englund lab in 2014 where he is working on NV centers in diamond photonic networks. Outside the lab, Michael was heavily involved in student government. He loves the outdoors and frequenting the pool and tennis courts when not in the lab.

BS (Physics), MIT (2013)
BS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2013)

PhD Student

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Room 36-531

B.A.Sc. (Nanotechnology Engineering) University of Waterloo, Canada (2018)

PhD Student

lbern -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-537

Liane received her Bachelor of Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal in 2016, specializing in Photonics. There, in the groups of Profs. Frédéric Leblond and Caroline Boudoux, she worked extensively on advancing biomedical imaging techniques such as Raman spectroscopy and optical coherence tomography. Subsequently, Liane took up a summer internship at Photon Etc, where she worked on improving the signal-to-noise ratio of hyperspectral imagers. In fall 2016, Liane started her graduate work in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, where in 2018, she earned her Master of Science for “Ultrahigh-Resolution, Deep-Penetration Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography” in Prof. Andy Yun’s group. She is currently developing both theoretical descriptions as well as experimental demonstrations of optical deep neural networks in the Quantum Photonics Laboratory. Outside the lab, Liane loves to climb rocks and play the flute.

BEng (Engineering Physics), Polytechnique Montreal (2016)
MS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2018)

Order of the White Rose Scholarship (2016)
FRQNT Doctoral Fellowship (2016-2018)
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (2018-2021)

PhD Student

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Room 36-529

Sarah completed her BS and MS in electrical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin (UT). While at UT, she studied the electrical transport of topological insulators in Prof. Seth Bank’s group. Sarah joined the Quantum Photonics Lab in fall 2018 and works on applying quantum sensing to investigate novel condensed matter systems. Outside of the lab, Sarah enjoys figure skating and rock climbing.

BS (Electrical Engineering) University of Texas at Austin (2018).

MS (Electrical Engineering) University of Texas at Austin (2018)

PhD Student

hlarocqu -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-519

Hugo completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at the University of Ottawa where he worked with Ebrahim Karimi and Robert Boyd on generating and characterizing topologically structured waves. The methods that he developed there involve applications in several fields including quantum cryptography, electron microscopy, materials science, nonlinear optics, and fundamental physics. Hugo joined the Quantum Photonics Lab as a graduate student in 2018.

B.Sc. (Physics) University of Ottawa, Canada (2016).

M.Sc. (Physics) University of Ottawa, Canada (2018).

PhD Student

asludds -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-537

Alex received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2018. His research interests include the application of optics to data management and access for computation as well as novel techniques for interfacing CMOS and Photonic Systems.

BS (EECS) MIT 2018

PhD Student

mmsutula -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-533

Maddie received her S. B. from MIT in 2019 with a double major in Materials Science and Engineering and Physics. There, she worked in the Moodera group towards the observation of triplet-pair superconductivity in novel films. She also spent a semester abroad at Oxford University, where she worked with Dr. Natalia Ares to design tunable low-frequency 2D cavities. Maddie is supported by the EECS Alan L McWhorter Fellowship. Outside of the lab, Maddie loves to spend time outside, especially hiking and biking, and she is a violinist in the MIT Symphony.

BS (Materials Science, Physics) MIT 2019

PhD Student

ateshian -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-537

Lamia received her BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2018 with a minor in Engineering Physics. As an undergraduate, she did summer research at Princeton with Prof. Andrew Houck on microwave photonics. She also interned for a summer at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, where she used optics to study flexible membranes. Her junior year she was an exchange student at the University of Oxford in the Dept. of Engineering Science, where she did research on RF metamaterials. For her senior thesis, she worked with Prof. Paul Prucnal on optical thresholding using silicon photonic nonlinearities. Lamia is a recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Outside of work, she enjoys ultimate frisbee and podcasts.

BSE (Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics), Princeton 2018

PhD Student

saumilb-at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-517

Saumil received his S.B. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2017 and 2018, respectively. For his work on room-temperature nanowire infrared detectors, Saumil received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Youth Award in 2013. As an undergraduate, he worked in several areas, including 2D materials at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, novel materials for receivers in free-space optical communication at Facebook's Connectivity Lab, and modeling of long-haul fiber-optic networks for the Telecom Infra Project with Facebook's Network Hardware Engineering team. For his Master's thesis, Saumil worked on frequency conversion systems for enabling distributed quantum networks with diamond color centers. Since then, his work has transitioned to silicon photonic integrated circuits for classical and quantum information processing. Before starting his PhD, Saumil worked on silicon photonics as a Senior Photonics Engineer at Elenion Technologies. Saumil is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and PhD student in the Quantum Photonics Laboratory.

SB, Electrical Science and Engineering, MIT (2017)

MEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (2018)

PhD Student

linsenli -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-531

Linsen Li received his BS in Microelectronics from Tsinghua University in 2019. He was a gold medal winner in the 16th Asian Physics Olympiad in 2015. As an undergraduate, he was awarded the Tsinghua Presidential Award, the highest honor in Tsinghua University. He has pursued the advanced curriculum and undertaken several research projects during his undergraduate period at Tsinghua University, MIT, and Stanford University. Linsen Li is a recipient of the Analog Devices Fellowship in MIT EECS. Outside of work, he enjoys swimming, skiing, and golf.

BS (Microelectronics), Tsinghua University (2019)

PhD Student

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Visiting Scholar

mennel -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-523

B.Sc. (Physics), TU Wien (2015)

M.Sc. (Physics), TU Wien (2017)

Visiting Scholar

isacsson -at- mit -dot- edu

 

Currently Photonic Device Engineer at Cisco, Inc.

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Currently Assistant Professor at ICFO

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PhD 2011

CEO and Founder of Diamond Nanotechologies, Inc

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PhD 2010, MIT

Currently Vice President of Engineering at Diamond Nanotechnologies

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Currently Professor at Gachon University

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Currently at Boston Consulting Group

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PhD, 2015

Currently Senior Data Scientist at Ultra Capital LLC

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Currently Assistant Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen

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Currently Assistant Professor at CUNY

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PhD (Physics) École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
MSc (Physics) University of Padua

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PhD (Physics), University Göttingen & Edinburgh University, Scotland
Diplom (Physics), University Göttingen & MSc (Physics) University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6

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PhD (Photonics Engineering), Ghent University (2016)
MSc (Engineering Physics), Ghent University (2011)

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PhD, 2016

Currently Research Scientist at HRL Laboratories, California

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PhD, 2017

PhD, 2015

Currently at GlobalFoundries

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PhD, 2015

Currently Senior Data Scientist at Ultra Capital LLC

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PhD 2017

Currently at Analog Photonics

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MS (EE) Columbia University
MS (EE) National Taiwan University
BS (Physics) National Taiwan University

PhD 2017

Lincoln Laboratory

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MA (Physics), Columbia University (2013)
BA (Physics), Wellesley College

PhD 2018

Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley

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MEng (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2011)
BS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2010)

PhD 2018

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MEng (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2013)
SB (Physics and Electrical Engineering), MIT (2012)

PhD 2018

MS (Physics), Korea University (2013)
BS (Physics), Korea University (2011)

PhD 2019

 

BS (Physics), The University of Texas at Austin (2013)
BS (Mechanical Engineering), The University of Texas at Austin (2013)

Currently PhD student at Harvard University

Currently MEng student at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Currently PhD student at Yale University

Currently PhD student at Stanford University

Undergraduate 2018

Currently a PhD student at MIT

Currently Professor in School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

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M.S. (Communication Engineering) Tohoku University, Japan (2015)
B.S. (Information Engineering) Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China (2013)

RSI high school student (2017)

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RSI high school student (2016)

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MRSP (2016)

MSRP (2015)