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Schine, Nathan
Biography
Nathan Schine received his B.A. in physics from Williams College in 2013 and his Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of Chicago. There, he worked with Jonathan Simon to create strongly-interacting topological materials made of light. Nathan then joined the lab of Adam Kaufman at JILA as an NRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow where he developed a state-of-the-art strontium tweezer array apparatus for investigations of ultra-coherent optical atomic clocks, quantum information processing, and many-body physics. In the fall of 2022, Nathan joined the faculty at the University of Maryland. His group focuses on the intersection of controlled coherent dynamics and engineered dissipation in quantum systems, implemented by interfacing a neutral atom array with an optical cavity.
Waks, Edo
Biography
Edo Waks received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University while working with Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto in the area of quantum optics and quantum information. After graduating, he became a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, working with Professor Jelena Vuckovic in the Ginzton Laboratory on nanophotonic implementations of quantum information processing, before joining the ECE Department as assistant professor for the Fall 2006 semester. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the Electrical Engineering Department at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.
Waks is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow and was a member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, at Stanford. He won the Department of Central Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellowship Award sponsored by the Army Research and Development Activity, which funded his postdoctoral research. He received 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 holds appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Reasearch in Electronics and Applied Physics
Research
Research Areas:
- Application of photonic crystals to quantum information processing
- Use of photonic crystals for practical tools in optical telecommunication and sensing
- Atomic, Molecular & Optical
- Quantum Science and Technology
Notable Publications:
Centers & Institutes: Joint Quantum Institute, Quantum Technology Center
News
- UMD Researchers Included in New NSF Quantum Initiatives
- UMD Leads New $25M NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation
- UMD to Lead $1M NSF Project to Develop a Quantum Network to Interconnect Quantum Computers
- Semiconductor Quantum Transistor Opens the Door for Photon-based Computing
- New Hole-Punched Crystal Clears a Path for Quantum Light
- Five UMD Physicists Elected APS Fellows
