Dirk R Englund

Professor

Department
Dept of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Technology Areas
Communication Systems: Optical, Wireless, Satellites / Computer Science: Cybersecurity, Quantum Computing, Networking & Signals, Bioinformatics / Electronics & Photonics: Photonics, Quantum Technology, Semiconductors, Lasers / Sensing & Imaging: Imaging, Optical Sensing, Chemical & Radiation Sensing / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Autonomous Systems, Manufacturing & Equipment, Logistics / Chemicals & Materials: Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials, Catalysis & Synthesis / Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) / Biotechnology: Sensors & Monitoring, Biomedical Devices & Systems / Energy & Distribution: Nuclear & Fusion, Energy Storage, Electrochemical Devices

Trailblazing quantum innovator advancing photonic and semiconductor technologies to shape the future of computing, communication, and metrology.

Background and Experience

Professor Dirk Englund joined the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department faculty in January 2013 as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

On earning his BS in physics from Caltech in 2002, Dirk Englund spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow at TU Eindhoven, where he designed and built a system for ultrafast magneto-optic nanoscopy. He entered graduate school at Stanford, where he earned an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in applied physics in 2008.  He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University until 2010.  Prior to coming to MIT, Prof. Englund was Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics at Columbia University.

Prof. Englund’s research focuses on quantum technologies based on semiconductor and optical systems, with the goal of controlling quantum states in photons and semiconductor spin systems to address problems in communication, computation, and metrology. His major research accomplishments include the control of light-matter interactions of single quantum states in quantum dots and diamond nitrogen vacancy centers, high-brightness single photon sources, group III/V photonic crystal lasers, and integrated photonic networks for quantum information processing. Prof. Englund leads the Quantum Photonics Laboratory at MIT.

Awards and Honors

  • DARPA Young Faculty Award | 2012
  • 2012 IBM Faculty Award
  • 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
  • 2011 Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics
  • 2012 IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Professional Award
  • 2008 Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Fellowship

Technologies

A Programmable Photonic Integrated Network for Universal Linear Optics

Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #16835
Dirk R Englund / Gregory Steinbrecher / Jacob Mower / Nicholas Harris
Technology Areas: Communication Systems / Electronics & Photonics
Impact Areas: Connected World

Routing of Single Photons from Trapped Ions using Photonic Integrated Circuits

Technology / Case number: #24887J
Dirk R Englund / John Hannegan / James Siverns / Uday Saha / Qudsia Quraishi / Edo Waks / Mihika Prabhu
Technology Areas: Computer Science / Electronics & Photonics
Impact Areas: Connected World
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Large-Scale Artificial Neural-Network Accelerators based on Coherent Detection and Optical Data Fan-out

Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #20967
Dirk R Englund / Ryan Hamerly
Technology Areas: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) / Communication Systems / Computer Science / Electronics & Photonics
Impact Areas: Connected World

Methods And Design Of Optical Neural Network

Technology / Case number: #18794
Marin Soljacic / Jacques Johannes Carolan / Mihika Prabhu / Yichen Shen / Nicholas Harris / Dirk R Englund / Scott Skirlo
Technology Areas: Computer Science / Electronics & Photonics
Impact Areas: Uncharted Frontiers
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Integration of Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector in Photonic Integrated Chips

Technology / Case number: #15175J
Karl Berggren / Xialong Hu / Dirk R Englund / Jacob Mower / Faraz Najafi
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Electronics & Photonics
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Nanoscale Ion Implantation and Precision Etching Using Conformal Contact Masks

Technology / Case number: #16414J
Dirk R Englund / Tim Schroder / Luozhou Li / Igal Bayn / Edward Chen / Matthew Trusheim
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Broadband and Ultrahigh Resolution Spectrometer Based on a Multimode Waveguide

Technology / Case number: #16610
Dirk R Englund / Ren-Jye Shiue / Noel Wan / Fan Meng / Tim Schroder / Edward Chen
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Communication Systems / Electronics & Photonics
Impact Areas: Connected World
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Enhanced Quantum Spin-Sensing Using Light Trapping in a Massively Multimode Diamond Resonator

Technology / Case number: #16809
Dirk R Englund / Hannah Clevenson
Technology Areas: Computer Science / Electronics & Photonics
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Precision Optical Imaging of Arbitrary Electric Fields Using Spin States in Diamond

Technology / Case number: #16443
Dirk R Englund / Matthew Trusheim
Technology Areas: Electronics & Photonics / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Connected World
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Integrated Lens Enabled LIDAR System

Technology / Case number: #18630L
Simon Verghese / Mihika Prabhu / Yi Yang / Paul Juodawlkis / Cheryl Sorace-Agaskar / Dirk R Englund / Scott Skirlo / Jeffrey Herd / Marin Soljacic
Technology Areas: Communication Systems / Electronics & Photonics / Industrial Engineering & Automation / Sensing & Imaging
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