Edo Waks |  |
Edo Waks is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his B.S. (1995) and M.S.E. (1996) in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2003 from Stanford University, Stanford, California, under Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto in the field of quantum optics and quantum information. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Ginzton Laboratory of Stanford University with Professor Jelena Vuckovic on the application of nanophotonic structures, such as quantum dots and photonic crystals, to quantum information processing.
Dr. Waks' research interests include studying the application of photonic crystals to quantum information processing, as well as the use of photonic crystals for practical tools in optical telecommunication and sensing.
He is the winner of the Department of Central Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellowship Award sponsored by the Army Research and Development Activity, a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1996-1999), and the William Huggins Award for Outstanding Achievement in Computer and Electrical Engineering, from Johns Hopkins University (1995). He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and the Optical Society of America.
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Laboratory for Nanophotonics and Quantum Information