Thomas E. Murphy Associate Professor, IREAP Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics Mailing Address: 2130 Kim Engineering Bldg. University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742-3511 Phone: (301) 405-3602 Email: tem at umd.edu FAX: (301) 314-9281 Affiliate Appointment: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Thomas Edward Murphy is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was born in Falls Church, Virginia, USA. He received his B.S.E.E. in electrical engineering and a B.A. in physics from Rice University in 1994, graduating summa cum laude. In 1994 he joined the NanoStructures Laboratory at MIT, where he pursued research in integrated optics and nanotechnology. He completed his M.S. degree in 1997 and his Ph.D. in 2000. In 1994, he was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship for graduate research, and in 2000 he and his colleagues received the Lemelson-MIT student team prize for innovation in telecommunications and networking. In 2000, he joined the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Optical Communications Technology Group where he studied and developed ultrafast optical communications systems. In August 2002, he joined the faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and a recent recipient of the NSF CAREER award. His research interests include optical communications, nonlinear optics, short-pulse phenomena, numerical simulation, optical pulse propagation, nanotechnology, and integrated photonics.

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